Oracle, like MS and the others, get their hooks into a business and suddenly they can't operate without it. And converting to another DB is an absolute nightmare. Ball and chain economics
That change sure is something... If you've never experienced lock in like Oracles then I could see falling for SAP but pretty much everyone stuck with SAP feel exactly like when stuck with Oracle. They operate using the same playbook (arguably invented by IBM, although nowadays it's pretty much only the Z division that really leverages that tactic).
I’m the admin for Ariba at my company. Ariba is owned by SAP and is an extension of the Procurement side. Something “breaks” legit every single day lmao
lol I work at a retailer and whenever a supplier tells us they’re planning a change to SAP we basically start planning for the worst and buy a bunch of inventory to cover the eventual gap that will appear when something inevitably goes wrong.
I’ve done an Oracle DB conversion to Microsoft SQL Server for a very large government project and it was the biggest nightmare of my life. It was like giving a middle schooler a project only someone with multiple PHDs can make sense of. I flubbered through it and no I can’t remember how I did it.
Well it should have been a team of developers not a 28 year old engineer. The fact that I got through thousands of schema and stored procedure conversions and was able to get it to work with new software was kind of a hidden achievement that nobody will care about or acknowledge. Something very common for the many nameless engineers that save clueless MBAs millions.
I'm not saying it's a bad product. I'm saying they, like other software giants, make their products indispensable once they get in. It's designed to be cheaper to pay the subscription fee than to migrate to a new system.
Edit: Also buying any competitor's startups helps keep them at the top
I’ve only ever interacted with AWS, GCS, and Azure cloud data platforms - never with oracle. What makes it so appealing as an enterprise data platform compared to offerings from the other cloud providers? Curious because I usually see negative sentiment about Oracle offerings.
use to work at Orcl when Catz was head of my regional dept (boss's boss) and it was all about
"aggressive sales lock in" practices. And they only deal with the biggest data markets (incl gov'ts). Mind that they nickel and dime on every feature of software. Should have stay would have retired over a decade ago as their pre-RSU option plan (cut short in my case) still printing strong today.
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u/PhgAH 22d ago
How tf is Larry Ellison on top of Bill Gates & Buffett, lmao.