I don't know anyone who buys new softwares from Oracle. Only few large companies are going after Oracle new services and software, mostly because some selfish company executives.
"I don't know anyone who buys new softwares from Oracle."
I do - I doubt that there are many organisations licensing just the Oracle database these days - I suspect most of their sales are in the ERP/finance areas where there are relatively few competitors.
How many competitors are there for Hyperion FM/Planning?
Edit: Note that I'm definitely not defending Oracle, but the market for their products is quite complex and much wider than a relational database engine.
As for competitors to hfm/epm: there are a few (onestream, tagetik, whatever sap is peddling...). But it doesn’t matter, all this thing about auditing will go away when every Oracle customer is forced at gunpoint to move to cloud versions - where they can be squeezed for more money at the touch of a button. Hfm licenses, for example, are basically not sold anymore unless you get special blessing from an Oracle VP; it’s FCCS or nothing.
Its been ~4 years since I was involved in that area - I know at that time Oracle was trying to recruit some of my colleagues for their cloud team. I don't think anyone took them up on the offer!
I did a lot of integration work with HFM for my previous employer - I was actually rather proud of the reporting solution we built on top of HFM, infinitely better than the reporting tools that Oracle provided. I sometimes wish that we'd productized that and sold it!
The enterprise sector is full of this. And why wouldn't it? It's basically never-ending circle of highly-paid consultants, in-house employees with very specific skillsets, never mind corporate kickbacks for devs and their managers. Opening this up would ruin your own revenue. No consultant ever got complaints from his successors for choosing IBM.
We look down on what's going on in the pharma industry, but the software world isn't all sunshine and lilies.
This is the problem with large company. They always "want" the applications to be "enterprise" level. Even if it's just a report generation tool to automate some simple task, use Oracle because they already have a large team that will take care of the database, why use mySQL and risk unforeseen issues down the road?
I have even seen a super super tool that simply allow user to go through a questionnaire, which a paper print out will more than likely enough and faster, to be implemented as an Oracle database, with the business logic embedded inside the database, and a super thin UI. User will need to know the correct schema name to use though, because they use schemas for versioning, and it's not like 1.0 and 1.1, it's latest_with_iso_compliace, test_only_production_for_customer_A and beta_for_production or similar.
