William, using the database for everything makes/made it easier for you to move to NET, or Java, or PHP, or whatever. Nobody would argue with that.
Question: what if a customer *loves* your app and says they'll pay you a fat fee as long as you abide by their company policy to use Oracle.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
