Comment Re:Danegeld (Score 1) 184
Virtually every database I've ever seen is a bit bucket. There's precisely zero reasons for them to be on Oracle because the data set is well into the size where PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server could easily provide a more cost-effective alternative.
That's fine for in-house stuff. The problem is when the organization buys an ERP or accounting package that requires Oracle. Maybe it could technically run on MySQL, but the vendor doesn't support that.
Usually the only other supported database is SQL Server, but this means having Windows servers, and for an organization that has made a substantial investment in big AIX or HPUX, it's a show stopper.
Red Hat has done a terrific job of making Linux enterprise-friendly. It's common nowadays to have organizations run RHEL on their old PowerPC or Itanium monsters. Now if Microsoft could release a version of SQL Server that runs on Linux we could all forget Oracle.