A bad week for Oracle - their health business and underlying cloud platform has suffered multiple massive breeches with damming evidence, and overt denial, minimisation of the matter.
Community likeness of Oracle has been missing for a while. Will Postgres, MySQL, or MongoDB ever be considered for similar EMS use cases? What FOSS product can replace Oracle today because there just hasn't been much replacing of high scaled Oracle anywhere except at Amazon? Every single medical provider today relies on Oracle.
I think Oracle can do a couple of things slightly better than others (db performance/features), which seems to be all it takes to be forever entrenched and unmovable in an enterprise/legacy codebase.
I don't think this class of customers care much about OSS. Vendor costs are an accepted business expense, passed onto customers, funded by tax dollars. Why would these big players dance around trying to get what they need from OSS when there's this "tried and true" vendor already proven.
Sure they're greasy, unhelpful, extorters... but hey... "this is big business baby! You gotta tango with the big boys if you wanna play ball in this field, bucko" :_)
Oracle are not a very big deal in healthcare in Europe, as I’ve understood it. They arr trying to sell here, but it’s tough when your product is from the 90’s and doesn’t fit European single-payer healthcare systems very well.
