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Sure some people buy Oracle for risk reduction after having done a sophisticated analysis, but plenty of people buy it because that's what the nice sales person tells them they need and the sales person obviously understand this techy stuff far more than they do.

The dev team says they can just use this "postgres" but the sales person said he'd seen this situation a lot of times before and that dev team was too inexperienced with "serious software" to know they needed to use a proper database rather than a toy one that people use when learning because it's free.

(not to pick on Oracle for any particular reason; this is common in enterprise sales at all levels)



Oracle also makes great Software and Hardware products work together perfectly. There is a reason why they have been #1 in their field.


Postgres is proffesionally supported by EnterpriseDB.

But postgres didn't have any horizontal scaling (multi-CPU master cluster) story until last year.


That's what parent meant by risk reduction. Career risk reduction.




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