Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

There is no single "Oracle killer"

There is no single "Oracle killer." Mongo DB works fine for some apps, but Mongo is not going to be a successful public company. There is too much competition and too few customers are willing to pay a lot of money for a product that is open source with limited functionality. (Check out the reviews on Glassdoor) Once Mongo is under the public spotlight, it will all be about revenue and earnings, and they will not be able to handle the accountability. Cloudera and Hortonworks are below their IPO price despite a huge runup in the NASDAQ and continue to lose milions every quarter. Sorry, but "we lose money on every subscription we sell, but we'll make it up in volume" is not a strategy. There is going to be a BIG stock market crash for recent IPO companies that are losing money, as there quite simply are too many of such stocks on the market.

Oracle is under a serious threat from several cloud-based data management solutions. Oracle themselves have not invested enough in cloud infrastructure and are offering basically just the same old, expensive Oracle database running as a cloud service. They doubled their already high prices to run Oracle in AWS and Azure in January. The Oracle DB is the most feature-rich of any database, but it is far too expensive, and for most applications, alternatives are available.

Posted by @PvRfKUC-qnu, hits the nail right on the head.

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Every companies in all stacks are chipping away Oracle business. ERP, Database .. you name it. Every single stack has a stronger player except Oracle database but it is losing it's market share year to year. Google DB Engine Ranking. Oracle database has all the powerful features but considering the costs and Oracle licensing threats, companies rather spending on good DBAs on open source db engine.

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Adding to the stickiness of PL/SQL is Apex. I have heard of companies that have written thousands of Apex applications.

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Oracle is the Oracle killer

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Oracle is the new COBOL. When you look at how many companies have invested millions of dollars into having millions of lines of undocumented/untested PL/SQL code, they're stuck. If you're just talking about data storage and running queries, Oracle is very easily replaceable at most companies. For many, MySQL is the natural replacement. NoSQL DBs require some ramp up time to get a knowledge base within the company but they're also viable alternatives.

The REAL sticking point is PL/SQL. If you have a significant investment there, you have two choices - rewrite it in whatever language your company happens to be invested in or stick it out with Oracle. We still have a TON of COBOL code out there in maintenance mode and Oracle is heading down the same hole. In 10 years, Oracle will be talked about in the basements of data centers by the grey beards with their red swingline staplers.

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