This happens with any product you buy. Dealing with it has to be included in the value proposition.
> we were locked into PL/SQL for all time, and the Oracle scaling bills and HW were astronomical
Yeah Oracle is expensive. Scaling costs should have been part of the calculation to commit to it. For most orgs that use Oracle, the cost is not really an issue in the grand scheme of what they spend on IT and servivces.
I agree, all products die, but how you integrate is all the difference. When you start reaching into the private guts of the system (in this case, the database), you are hopelessly intertwined with them. There are much cleaner ways to do this that makes a migration to something new a lot less painful.
This happens with any product you buy. Dealing with it has to be included in the value proposition.
> we were locked into PL/SQL for all time, and the Oracle scaling bills and HW were astronomical
Yeah Oracle is expensive. Scaling costs should have been part of the calculation to commit to it. For most orgs that use Oracle, the cost is not really an issue in the grand scheme of what they spend on IT and servivces.