Weaknesses

Complexity (6602 files in our /usr/local/oracle) Oracle Corp (everything costs money, even bug reports) Consultants (1 month or 1 day?) Oracle 7 Guys (BLOB support) No source, not freeware 3113: Marge, Oracle crashed! Security (too many sockets, keep on backnet) www.oracle.com is painful to use Linux rhetoric (no price breaks) Opaqueness: VARCHAR vs CHAR Bloatware (java in db?!?) Installer (missing docs causes failure)

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