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		notimetorelax on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back... It’s the usual, Oracle did something similar to CERN a few years back. Lock in and profit!

tomxor on June 12, 2019 [–]

Did CERN manage to migrate away?

notimetorelax on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Back then we just paid, don’t know if this changed. Oracle and PL/SQL was deeply embedded, I don’t think this would be feasible. There were terabytes of beam data in Oracle DBs and lots of software relying on the dialect.

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