I wonder if anyone here has seen any net new adoption of Oracle DBs in the last few years? It was an absolute juggernaut 10-15 years ago and has rapidly tanked their reputation and spread their business across software, services and cloud with mixed results. Is it actually still growing or just milking their stodgy enterprise customers for more money?
When they threaten you with lawsuits for using their software, and make their pricing completely opaque so you don’t really know what you owe (Comcast style), why would you knowingly choose that? Postgres is pretty darn good these days.
I still love Java, but I won’t be surprised if that language becomes a business risk because of Oracle’s behavior in other spaces.
> Postgres
Yes, maybe there will be built in automatic fail over in a few years so you don't have to hack it together using a bunch of scripts.
Of course there's overlap in functionality and most companies should probably chose PG over Oracle. But PG is a joke in some areas like the above mentioned.
thanks microsoft !!