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> Using tech that has been subjected to all those people hours of use means you’re less likely to run into edge cases, unexpected behaviour, or attributes and features that lack documentation or community knowledge.

Often this is part of the value proposition with commercial offerings - Obtaining access to solutions that work for people with much bigger problems than you.

This can differ subtly from the raw scale of deployment. For example, SQL Server and Oracle may not be as widely deployed as something like SQLite, but in the cases where they are deployed the demands tend to be much more severe.



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