A lot of companies have been making it a goal to move away from Oracle as a whole. The Java enterprise licensing thing from a few years back rubbed every company in the world the wrong way, their rep is permanently trashed.
The ongoing java licensing thing. They just changed their licensing terms to where you have to license every computer in your company if 1 computer needs java. And they are going around shaking down companies who are unknowingly using java.
I cannot speak for smaller firms because we only deal with enterprise level projects. What we have seen and continue to see is that if the demands of the project are light enough to run on the cloud, then the company will do that (Azure is kicking everyone’s ass in sales BTW). Anyone else, which is the majority or pur clients (and they don’t like hearing it) are stuck with Oracle. Sure, you can off-load a lot of functionality to other things, but for RDBMS you are stuck with the big red ⭕.
I’m not gonna dox myself, but my company is definitely not a smaller firm, whatever country you’re in, good chance we at least have a presence. Our drive to eliminate Oracle dependence extends to just… not doing whatever that was at all anymore. We’re not there yet and it’s going to take even more years, but I’ve heard the same from quite a few others at similarly large companies.
You’re right that Oracle is in a real good place technically in a lot of ways, but people are very very motivated to see them fail and that drive has even spread outside of the IT sphere.
A lot of companies have been making it a goal to move away from Oracle as a whole. The Java enterprise licensing thing from a few years back rubbed every company in the world the wrong way, their rep is permanently trashed.
The ongoing java licensing thing. They just changed their licensing terms to where you have to license every computer in your company if 1 computer needs java. And they are going around shaking down companies who are unknowingly using java.
I cannot speak for smaller firms because we only deal with enterprise level projects. What we have seen and continue to see is that if the demands of the project are light enough to run on the cloud, then the company will do that (Azure is kicking everyone’s ass in sales BTW). Anyone else, which is the majority or pur clients (and they don’t like hearing it) are stuck with Oracle. Sure, you can off-load a lot of functionality to other things, but for RDBMS you are stuck with the big red ⭕.
Postgres.
I’m not gonna dox myself, but my company is definitely not a smaller firm, whatever country you’re in, good chance we at least have a presence. Our drive to eliminate Oracle dependence extends to just… not doing whatever that was at all anymore. We’re not there yet and it’s going to take even more years, but I’ve heard the same from quite a few others at similarly large companies.
You’re right that Oracle is in a real good place technically in a lot of ways, but people are very very motivated to see them fail and that drive has even spread outside of the IT sphere.
Amen. Oracle has made us buckets of cash but dear lord are they awful. IT will be better once they are gone.