Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adopt SAP instead

Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by p_l on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:23AM (#26707929)

A non-trivial amount of cases is when you buy a software package that only supports Oracle - that was pretty much the only reason why we didn't have a campaign to eradicate Oracle DB in my first job - the most critical money-making system was dependant on it.

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Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by agumonkey on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:58AM (#26710384)

Do you think they (Oracle) crafted that situation or it was just organic ?

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Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by Spooky23 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:40PM (#26717717)

A little of both. Back in the day you had a few different platforms. Oracle was a safe choice and eventually a no brainer... most companies had either MS SqlServer or Oracle capability, and a smaller number ran DB2.

Open source created modern Oracle. I worked for a company built around Informix, and that database engine was one of the largest expenses of the company. I think we paid like $40k/socket in 2000. Today, you use an open source database to build your product.

So Oracle had to start selling integrated solutions. They do evil shit like pay higher commissions for salespeople to cross-sell their colleagues. So the Oracle Financials guy gets paid more to sell Identity crap than the identity guy. So the sales idiots form all sorts of weird alliances and kill each other.

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Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by p_l on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:17PM (#26718052)

Some of it was specific features offered by Oracle - the ones relevant to my first job were Oracle RAC and in-DB encryption, iirc. We were at the time (2008) upgrading from 3-node cluster in one DC to geographically dispersed system with hot backups.

Thing is, the vendor simply happened to build upon Oracle. If the software supported DB2, or more likely, supported a migration path from Oracle to DB2, I suspect we would have gone with that.

On another hand...

A lot of "Oracle required" software uses a ton of Oracle-specific stored procedures and other components, in fact, I have encountered an MRP software package that was written entirely inside Oracle database. All PL/SQL, with some bits of embedded Java.

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Re:Google will stop using Oracle’s finance software and adop... by dagw on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:14AM (#26736702)

I've worked closely with the developers of a couple of such apps and in those cases it was a mainly that Oracle had some non-standard features that made implementing certain core features in the app a lot easier and faster for the developers.

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