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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Is this not a case study that anyone can leave Oracle now, if an Amazon scale install can?

It shows that a big company like Amazon, hiring thousands of SDEs still needed other vendors software than their own, because of all that time they spent in hiring and firing people and obsessing over their customers needs.

sarcasm

Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Is this not a case study that anyone can leave Oracle now, if an Amazon scale install can?

It shows that a big company like Amazon, hiring thousands of SDEs still needed other vendors software than their own, because of all that time they spent in hiring and firing people and obsessing over their customers needs. sarcasm

Also, MySQL is technically, an Oracle database (after Sun got bought out). Now they should write some migrations to turn all of that off.

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Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It shows that a big company like Amazon, hiring thousands of SDEs still needed other vendors software than their own, because of all that time they spent in hiring and firing people and obsessing over their customers needs. sarcasm

Also, MySQL is technically , an Oracle database (after Sun got bought out). Now they should write some migrations to turn all of that off. sarcasm intensifies

I expect the internal teams use Amazon Aurora instead of MySQL. Aurora is compatible with MySQL but is not owned by Oracle.

Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Is this not a case study that anyone can leave Oracle now, if an Amazon scale install can?

> some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated

Oracle's strategy of buying companies like PeopleSoft is paying off.

Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, MySQL is technically , an Oracle database (after Sun got bought out). Now they should write some migrations to turn all of that off. sarcasm intensifies

I expect the internal teams use Amazon Aurora instead of MySQL. Aurora is compatible with MySQL but is not owned by Oracle.

Yeah but the client interfaces are all MySQL. Oracle should buy off PostgreSQL too. And then it should start charging only Amazon for using these interfaces.

moar sarcasm.

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