>A follow-up - take a look at what Microsoft has done with SQL Server. It has slowly been eating Oracle's lunch. Plenty of case studies in the last year where companies have pushed out Oracle and SAP in favor of SQL Server, and even more where SQL Server edged Oracle in vendor selections.
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>So I think that's an exception (and surely not the only one!) to your Titanic analogy.

Eating their lunch from behind, aren't they? Doesn't Oracle still have a dominant market share?