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People keep using Oracle because they have a ton of code and migration would be too costly.

Oracle is not imune to software issues. In fact, this year I lost two weekends because of a buggy upgrade on the cloud that left my production cluster in a failed state.

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A lot of these have business logic literally in the database built up over years.

It’s a mammoth task for them to migrate

Oracle Consulting gladly built it all as stored procs with a UI.

> built

billed

annually

It’s not about being immune to software issues. It’s about having a vendor to cop the blame if something goes wrong.

It doesn't do me any good. All I can get from Oracle is the possibility of opening a support ticket and then having to send them tons of log files. If I use max severity, they expect me to be available 24/7, any other severity means they'll take weeks to look at it.

Most times I prefer to wade through the knowledge base until I find a solution.

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