OracleORCL
Moat score
The highest switching costs in enterprise software, monetized aggressively; now betting on cloud infrastructure for growth.
MOATE3.1Deep
3.1 Deep
| Dimension | MOATE | Community |
|---|---|---|
| Switching costsweight 15Database migrations are multi-year, career-risking projects; audit practices make leaving even more expensive. | 10 | — |
| Network effectsweight 15Limited. Value does not compound with additional customers. | 3 | — |
| Scale & cost advantageweight 12OCI is growing quickly but remains far smaller than the leaders. | 6 | — |
| Brand & pricing powerweight 12Pricing power comes from lock-in rather than preference; it is real either way. | 6 | — |
| Cornered resourceweight 12The database itself, the installed base, healthcare records via Cerner, and marquee cloud contracts. | 7 | — |
| Distribution controlweight 12Long-standing enterprise relationships and a broad application suite. | 6 | — |
| Disruption resilienceweight 12New workloads increasingly start on Postgres and cloud-native databases rather than Oracle. | 5 | — |
| Independenceweight 10OCI growth is concentrated in a handful of very large customers. | 6 | — |
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