• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I cannot imagine any business leader crunching the numbers and concluding it’s better to stay with Oracle. I would order an all-hands-on-deck effort to rejigger the company database needs to get out from under these parasites.

    Only explanation I got it that they are unwilling to stall current projects and/or hire more backend devs while sorting it out. And yes, I am well aware it’s a monstrous task, even for a small company.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      It’s cheaper in the long run, which is probably about 5 years, maybe less. Those fees are astronomical.

      In fact, I’d be willing to donate some time to help a small business transition to Postgres.

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      A friend of mine was working on decommissioning Oracle at his company for the past year or two. The company bought some software that was using Oracle years ago. Turns out it was relying heavily on DB procedures and to ditch Oracle they had to move all this logic out of it first. They tried to do it couple of times before but failed. The software works so this work had low priority and would be scraped eventually to focus on more important things. On like a 3rd try they finally managed to do it and are now Oracle free.

  • Sasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    My job only exists because it was cheaper to hire several thousand tech workers to replace all the oracle products in house over several years than to keep using Oracle lmao