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mrkarim on Nov 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you ...

I'd argue the tests is more important for example Oracle is still the leading commercial DB, If your product works people will buy it.

Johnny555 on Nov 15, 2018 [–]

Isn't that mostly due to momentum? But if Oracle can't keep up with the features customers need, they'll lose that momentum.

Enterprise software sales cycles are slow, but once they start turning, it's hard to turn them back.

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