I'm thinking of major government contractors like: Vermont Systems (Rectrac/Golftrac/etc - Progress), Sidpers - Informix, FMS - Oracle, and more...
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>Life is full of trade offs. I suppose the company that brought into a backend server could rewirte the application if it ever needed to migrate to something new. If a heavy investment has been made in Store Procedure, such that a significant part of the application existed in the database itself, it might detour a Company from considering any other database execept in the extreme circumstance when no other choice exited. There are always many consideration, and I feel like everyone does the very best they can. Nothing is certain.
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