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Serious honest question for someone who might know but is anyone in the US adopting Oracle for green field projects based on valid technical merits or biz requirements these days? It's easy to dump on Oracle but I'm curious about legitimate technical or business requirement reasons for adopting Oracle in 2019.

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For some highly-specific performance scenarios, Oracle still cannot be beat. I know far, far more businesses where a supported Postgresql is perfectly suitable. I know only one business where Oracle was a defensible technical choice.

> For some highly-specific performance scenarios, Oracle still cannot be beat.

Can you elaborate on this please? I do not think this statement is correct.

Trading environment, there wasn't another solution with the lookup-and-matching performance they got out of Oracle, from what little was shared with me. I trust the source as he is the best programmer I know first-hand and never shied away from throwing together his own solution if he found benefit from it, like his own object database back in the early 80's.

> Trading environment, there wasn't another solution with the lookup-and-matching performance they got out of Oracle, from what little was shared with me.

I've been maintaining trading backend databases for roughly a decade. What oracle does, db2, sql server, sybase can do. And postgresql, MySQL most probably too.

Most of the times the Oracle choice is dictated by a software editor whose devs are more familiar with Oracle and have an oracle first strategy.

Anyone onboarding to Salesforce is de facto adopting Oracle. Salesforce certainly seems to be popular these days.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people taking salesforce are going for a managed cloud options. It may be running Oracle but the business will likely be several abstraction steps away from managing it day to day.

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