Re: Thank you Reg...
Make that short term shareholder value.
For non critical loads simply switching to Postgres will save a ton of money.
Critical applications need closer scrutiny but it is likely that what was bleeding edge performance requirements 10 to 15 years ago could now be handled by commodity Linux, Postgres and several tweaks.
Plus never specify Oracle on a system under development.
What's the betting that in 10 years time the company gets swallowed into the Broadcom/CA software care home.