Thread regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

Companies don't give Oracle $10M's per year for DB products because they like giving out money. Saying you're the next big DB is easy, doing it is something else. Oracle has had 10k people working on the DB for the last 30 years, even if they were being lazy it's not easy to catch up. The technicals are extremely complex once you break the surface

It's not just one company. Oracle is under attack from all angles.

It's not just AWS, GCP, and Azure breathing down their throats.

SQL Server is on Linux now. MariaDB and Postgres continue to get better. There is still DB2 out there, Sybase etc... Then in NoSQL land you have Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, HBase. In Big Data land you have Hadoop, Spark, a plethora of SQL engines. Cloud and Hybrid Big Data players. Add in some streaming and messaging players and it's a crowded space. Oracle needs to get out the checkbook and start doing some acquisitions.

There is no newer DB technology than Oracle. The others talk a good game but they don't scale like Oracle because they're toys.

It’s relational databases that are now old school. Like the mainframe, they have their best uses and will never truly disappear, but newer DB tech will be more available because progress demands it. Any big tech player had better be keeping an eye on competitors of any size. Complacency is the killer!

Redis has been around for years, they have a great product that certainly meets some application requirements but it is no match for a full-featured relational database.

You have nothing to fear but fear itself.