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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by ryanmarsh on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:40PM (#15169302)
> Financial Review and CIO Monthly

Yes, bean counters. When the only sales person involved is now the AWS Architect the bean counters put Postgres and Oracle side by side and it becomes a no brainer. You're going to see lots of enterprise development moving away from Oracle as they move to AWS.

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by bigiain on Monday September 04, 2017 @07:34PM (#15171494)
I'm not so sure it's the stereotypical "beancounter" here. There seems to be absolutely no penny pinching going on (which is the impression I get from "beancounter").

I'd say it's more the "Contract Signers" who're at fault. The devs and AWS Architect are perfectly happy to use inexpensive AWS options, but somebody _else_ goes golfing and drinking with the Oracle sales team - and arrives at work hung over the next day with a shiny new half million dollar a year Oracle licence which everyone else is now required to use.

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