Case Study
Migrating Oracle Databases to Open Source Technologies
Migrating Oracle Databases to Open Source Technologies AUTHOR John Schulz Principal Consultant, Microsoft MCM & MVP V01-012021-HWMIGRATING ORACLE DATABASES TO OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES | 2 pythian.com Introduction Some Oracle customers today are beginning to weigh other options, often for a host of reasons including Oracle’s license and contract restrictions, customer audits, concern about eventually being locked in, and high support costs. One option they may choose is to migrate to open source databases (OSDBs) with much less restrictive licenses and no license fees. In this document, we will review the options current Oracle users have to migrate to open source database technology. We will start with what Oracle database technologies are currently in use, compare those to the man