Re:Oracle is in the database business (Score 1)

Expensive systems are on Oracle. The largest collections of data might even be on the filesystem with no database. The largest collection of data I saw in a single system was on Postgres. If that system went Oracle it would have cost them half a million in licence fees, that would have been more than the comany running the database had. Instead they just had a boat load of cheap intel gear running Linux. An Oracle 7.1 on VMS database I once worked on simply could not handle the load of data we gave it. This data was a small fraction of what was handled by a time series data store system on the same hardware. As Postgres and MySQL gain the trust of users it will kill the market for low, then middle, then high end databases. That is why Oracle needs to move into applications because their core DB is going to loose to open source and microsoft.