That's true of companies that can afford it as well. For an example, the government uses SqlServer for it's non-mission-critical and anything other than top-secret backends and Oracle for some of those that require more security. (Unless this changed in the past year and a half, only Oracle was fully DOD orange book compliant)
>I doubt that people that use MySQL because it's free for them would pay top dollars for Oracle database.
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>>Because it competes more directly with SQL Server on the low-end installations. There is also the possibility that once an organization outgrows MySQL that Oracle will offer them a migration strategy and seamless migration to Oracle.
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>>From a business standpoint it makes sense for them to keep it.
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