@Anti-Oracle

Im a DBA for multiple RDBMS'es and Oracle tends to be very secure. If a company is running Oracle 8 exposed to the internet they are just asking to be exploited. That is not Oracles fault as Oracle 8 has been desuported since 12/31/2003. At the shop im at we do stay a release behind but we do apply the quartelry security patches from Oracle to prevent these types of exploits.

Where are you working now? I guess in a SQL server shop! Oracle database is like a horse, which can run very fast, provided you have competent jockeys (DBAs) to ride it. It's still the best RDBMS handsdown.

Because corporations do not update their Oracle DB Core unless they are forced at gunpoint. Oracles is an awful database solution, and every release brings with it known regressions. It's not a matter of will it break, it's a matter of "Are we accepting of what we know it will break."

I worked for a company that developed software for Oracle. I had to support Oracle day in and day out. We still had people running Oracle 8 when I left, and that was several years after Oracle 10 was released. When we'd run into a bug the DBAs would fight tooth and nail against installing a patch, and no matter how much I sympathized with them, they had to do it and suffer the consequences.