"does anyone high scale actually use oracle"
Oracle is so much more that its database products. Oracle Hyperion being a good example - it's the market leading financial consolidation/reporting system. It is very popular in large public companies.
Oracle is so much more that its database products. Oracle Hyperion being a good example - it's the market leading financial consolidation/reporting system. It is very popular in large public companies.
I tell another friend about this company, he's a family investment planner (the guy that rich people give money to when they are too rich to work). He tells me in the hierarchy of multinationals, this one is at or near the top. You never hear about them because 99% of everything you buy is financed through them.
And that is Oracle's main clients. Really large companies with incredibly deep pockets and, most likely, a simple webpage that doesn't describe what they really do.
Think of it, most people never heard of AIG, until the government had to loan them $182 billion.
Sites which often fill large rooms with multiple and well-populated versions of storage controllers similar to the HP XP2400 series to house all those Oracle databases:
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12711_div/1271...
Acceptance of (most) other database vendors and of other data access models tends to trail in the enterprise market; it's a very large and cautious and conservative market, and poles apart from a startup.