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