I worked on a couple of large Oracle projects, and they were probably the worst vendor I've dealt with in the last decade. They had the potential to solve really compelling problems, but it was overshadowed by how poor their products were and the eye-watering costs.
Once you're hooked of course on their financial stack you have little choice but to remain.
I'm watching with interest the adoption of Workday as a replacement for Peoplesoft, and wonder aloud if someone will unseat them in their related product groups.
I have seen this in so many cases. Somehow Oracle convinced people of their never-ending superiority. I know in 8i and 9i days, we were very happy with its performance and feature set. That's not to say that SQL Server (or hell, even DB2 or Sybase) couldn't have given it competition. But when I hear executive types pushing Oracle these days, I have to ask, "really? REALLY?? do you even know WHY you're pushing that monstrous heap of garbage?? Does it give you something you can't get with Postgres? Oh yes... a flatter wallet. Touche.
As far as Workday, I'm intrigued that someone would chosen Adobe Flex as a platform. (we just converted last year)
Once you're hooked of course on their financial stack you have little choice but to remain.
I'm watching with interest the adoption of Workday as a replacement for Peoplesoft, and wonder aloud if someone will unseat them in their related product groups.