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Just like Oracle.

No one talks about Oracle. But they're still around. We did a major tech project to migrate off of Oracle after an acquisition of a large org that was running it.

It was a year-long effort to migrate. But it was worth it since Oracle renewal costs were going to be nearly 50% of our IT budget.

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I did a similar year long migration off Oracle. What helped were all the automated integration tests that had been built previously. It made it so much easier to verify that everything would work after the migration.

a) Oracle is proven at scale.

b) Large global talent pool of Oracle experts.

c) First-class professional support.

Not everyone is looking to innovate on their database. Many just want something that is reliable and easily supported.

>c) First-class professional support

Ah, this was a sarcastic comment! It was, right?

Oracle is also arcane, buggy and poorly documented (the buggy really surprised me when I first started using it). And there are much less resources online compared to the other big databases.

This is hilarious.

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