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In horror I see a lot of business application stacks driven by Oracle. Probably because of some nifty set feature early on. Again and again we pay dearly for it.

A small and growing part of me wants to cut through the bulls hit and look into eliminating it wherever I can sell the idea.

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My experience with my current employer is that Oracle/SQL Server/Windows are used because of the lack of trust in open source solutions, usually by management who grew up in the Stone Age of Software.

All 3 of the aforementioned slow EVERY process in the building down, especially when it comes to application development.

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