Re: Startups using Oracle?

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:33:13 -0700 Michael Cunningham wrote:
> Our company uses Oracle EE, but just wondering. Anybody here know of
> other startups using Oracle (any version)?

A cloud company that was a startup many years ago and just got acquired by Oracle a few years ago, they were using Oracle DB. I worked there for awhile.

These days? I haven't been around many startups. But my wild speculation is that you'd have a hard time finding many people using oracle. Yesterday and today, a friend of mine in a private email discussion wrote the following (he gave me permission to quote this on oracle-l):

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:02:46 +0100 friend wrote:
> I realise this is all a little wishy-washy, but as someone that
> regularly looks after Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server, I can see why a
> lot of people can't be bothered with Oracle. It is fast becoming the
> engine we pick when the vendor forces our hand, rather than the one
> we pick by choice. After investing 21+ years of my life into Oracle
> tech, that's a pretty painful statement to make.

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:44:44 +0100 friend wrote:
> I can see a lot of the lights-on DBs going cloud in the
> future. Even when you move to these services, you still have to
> consider consolidation. If multitenant were free on EE, you might end
> up using it on AWS within your RDS service. :)

-Jeremy

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