StartupsOct 7, 2018

Who still buys MSSQL/Oracle DB licenses?

Instead of going MySQL/Postgres/etc?

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Amazon jefe_bezos Oct 7, 2018

Dinosaurs and the Midwest.

IBM UOsu55 Oct 7, 2018

Literally just nuke plants and morons

Oracle of Ā· Nada Oct 7, 2018

So what word do you use for DB2 customers?

IBM UOsu55 Oct 7, 2018

ā€œFucking Moronsā€šŸ˜‚

IBM fPXh60 Oct 7, 2018

Military, banks and some governments in general. For ex IRS uses DB2

LexisNexis Risk Solutions IbOr36 Oct 7, 2018

International clients, companies which fear switching databases can lead to loss of data and entities like bank, govt. offices, etc. P.S.: I've heard some banks and/or financial institutions still use Cobol! šŸ˜„

Google yODa40 Oct 7, 2018

Who asks these stupid questions, really? I sometimes wonder how these high TC people working at these high profile firms can be so stupid about business, finance and strategy. DB licenses are the least of any successful organizations problems. Itā€™s not a Big(O) problem. Iā€™m pretty sure few of you understand the cost and risk of database migrations

Microsoft 1+1 OP Oct 7, 2018

The last sentence in your reply makes me think you're not much of a technical person. MS and Oracle are mainly used for legacy and backend apps. No new implementation I know of outside MS pays a bill for DB

Microsoft @zzz Oct 7, 2018

Companies like Facebook (oracle), and every other big company out there.

Google AWASU7 Oct 7, 2018

Lol Google has an oracle license for it's erp system

Microsoft @zzz Oct 7, 2018

And those erp systems run on some relational dB backend.

Microsoft 1+1 OP Oct 7, 2018

IMHO Facebook uses heavily MySQL (owned by Oracle but doesn't generate them much rev). They even forked it at some stage.

Oracle IUTo17 Oct 7, 2018

Most companies have Oracle DBs floating around. Some more than others: energy industry, finance, defense, aerospace, government, and damn near every HR and payroll department on earth.

Bloomberg iVX372 Oct 7, 2018

Bloomberg does, although there are efforts to migrate to PostreSQL

Google GAFAM Oct 7, 2018

Amazon