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Not necessarily a choice, but everywhere I've ever worked used Oracle. Including my last 2 <500-person Valley-based tech companies I've been employed at used it.

For all its drawbacks (and I'm not a DBA or developer) at least I don't have to participate in HN threads where people discuss the 10 buzzwordy-DB-but-not-a-DB trends-of-the-week to migrate your data to.. which will all be forgotten next week :)



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