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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by outside1234 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:03PM (#9703598)
"Doesn't cost anything": This is a meme that is largely false.

Any large organization will buy support for open source software which can sometimes be actually more than the cost of a database license (see Datastax and Cassandra).

License, support, take your pick. It takes people to keep systems running.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by davidgerard on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:00AM (#9704418)
We're moving from Oracle to Postgres. From three huge Oracle instances to, pretty much, a cloud of Postgres boxes, a pair per application. Because we can.

Oracle is a superlative database, but it's the polar opposite of agile. This turns out to be important.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by scriptproof on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:25AM (#9704473)
In the article it is said by moving from Oracle to Datastax support, the cost was down from $500 000 to $90 000. Oracle support has a cost too.
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