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> A company might as well spend months of their experienced developers' time while making them mentor the more junior devs and invest a lot of resources in this, as well as have more overhead to their development because of needing to spend longer on QA and fixing bugs introduced by these juniors, for them to just turn around and leave when they've gotten the seniority that they desire.

Then they behaved like Oracle, Terradata and every other "business-sensible" vendor, who manages to get his customer into a technology-based lock-in. The only way Oracle only shakes down customers for tens of millions per year and not for billions is that, if it were billions, companies would just invest into migrating off Oracle.



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