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Database Business Problems at Oracle?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @04:07AM from the good-but-not-good-enough dept.

abb_road writes "Wall Street responded to yesterday's report of a 42% rise in profits by pushing Oracle's stock down. Despite a 77% increase in applications business, investors are worried that Oracle's core database business remains comparatively stagnant. Though Ellison claims that the DB business will grow in double digits over the next few years, it seems that more companies are switching to open source rather than paying Oracle $40,000 a processor."

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Re:Open Source vs. Oracle by Fnkmaster · 2006-03-21 04:34 · Score: 1, Redundant

Funny, but utterly false. You need the same level of talent on board to deal with Oracle properly as you do to deal with MySQL, Postgres, etc. A highly skilled Oracle DBA or programmer is as expensive as any other similarly skilled technical talent.

Not to say you don't get anything for the 40 large a processor, you definitely do, but let's not pretend you get some trivial to manage, point-and-click product that you can hire a monkey to deal with. That's absurd.