We learned when we switched away from Oracle DB due to performance issues

Haha, funnily enough this is my fault. Before I began using oracle many years ago, someone had this happen to them. I thought “This will never happen to me. They must've done something wrong and aren't willing to admit it.” Well, here we are.

I think there are maybe two exceptions to the "no dev will suggest Oracle": Java (but you use a JVM maintained by someone else) and MySQL (unfortunately a requirement for certain combinations of languages and frameworks). I also remember reading about Oracle's RHEL clone (Oracle Linux) supposedly bring quite good for running on MacBooks in a VM because it comes with all the emulation libraries and stuff preconfigured? Nothing you can't do on Alma or Rocky but you'd need to configure it yourself. No business should ever make the mistake of signing a contract with Oracle, though. Their sales team is just a customer facing extension of their main business: their legal team.

I got cold email titled "Michelin-Star Dinner Experience", I thought that's spam but turned out to be Oracle Cloud. I don't know about others, this certainly made me dislike them...