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