This past year I spoke at Oracle's Code One conference in San Francisco for the first time. I've never used Oracle products before and had never been to an Oracle event before, but I was aware of Oracle's incredibly bad reputation in the dev community.
When I got to the event it was MASSIVE. I think they have something like 30k+ attendees.
As I was walking around, hanging out, and attending talks, I decided to make friends and chat up other people. This is where things got interesting.
Through the 2 days I was at the event, I probably met nearly 100 developers, and when I asked all of them what they use Oracle for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM openly told me that their companies use Oracle right now but they hate it and they were all in the process of transitioning to other providers or open source solutions.
Every single person I met at Code One told me the exact same thing.
That is pretty insane and I don't think it bodes well for Oracle that all of their customers are trying to find ways to get out of their ecosystem :x
When I got to the event it was MASSIVE. I think they have something like 30k+ attendees.
As I was walking around, hanging out, and attending talks, I decided to make friends and chat up other people. This is where things got interesting.
Through the 2 days I was at the event, I probably met nearly 100 developers, and when I asked all of them what they use Oracle for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM openly told me that their companies use Oracle right now but they hate it and they were all in the process of transitioning to other providers or open source solutions.
Every single person I met at Code One told me the exact same thing.
That is pretty insane and I don't think it bodes well for Oracle that all of their customers are trying to find ways to get out of their ecosystem :x