A software company who does not change the world, and/or change with the world, will die. The world is not dependent on Oracle DB though. Enterprises are chomping at the bits trying to get of Oracle DB. Evolution is brutal.
It narrows the field, at least for us, to microsoft, ibm, oracle and mongo.
So we’re all in on mongo, as it goes, but I wouldn’t really balk at running some stuff on the giant oracle clusters now and again.