Oracle’s Cloudy Future
A genuine question: If you have worked with any fortune 500/1000 companies (Lets pick non software based companies) either directly or if they are your customers, how many of them use Oracle database or SQL Server?<p>Some of the reasons why this trend WILL continue:<p>1. Critical software like databases needs support. To the point where there should be someone who can come on premise to fix things.<p>2. We need to use X because X is used by other big corporations and you never get fired for choosing X.<p>3. The products (Oracle,MS SQL) are not that bad. (Not sure if there is a better way to put this)<p>I could be wrong, but I can't think of any other important reason. Can anyone pitch in their experience?