My memory is failing me at 62 but back then the Ingres community was much more positive about the product than the Oracle community. At one point I was president of the North American Ingres User Group (Association, what did we cann it?).  I had moved from using Oracle version 1.x to Ingres 1.x in the beginning because Oracle was so bad.  I think that was about 1982 or 1983.<p>But the company (Relational Technology) just had no idea what they had and how to sell it.<p>I&#x27;m an Oracle customer today because my shop has a site license.  I would use mysql for what I need an RDBMS for today (very light, low volume usage).  Oracle is overkill for my work. But it is always available and there are advanced features should I need them.