Not even necessarily that niche. If your IT org is led by people who are particularly not-that-bright, they may insist on running Oracle-supported Java in lieu of OpenJDK, in which case you have to deal with seat-based licensing. The WebLogic Java EE platform is still a thing at some companies who are too chickenshit to jump ship to JBOSS/Wildfly or just move to Spring+Tomcat in general. Oracle DB is a thing at many, many major enterprises, and the price tag isn’t that much worse than Micro$oft SQL Server Datacenter Edition, if you’re at that tier. Oracle DB is absolute dogshit, but a lot of guillotine bait types seem to be fond of forcing it on their IT departments.
Not even necessarily that niche. If your IT org is led by people who are particularly not-that-bright, they may insist on running Oracle-supported Java in lieu of OpenJDK, in which case you have to deal with seat-based licensing. The WebLogic Java EE platform is still a thing at some companies who are too chickenshit to jump ship to JBOSS/Wildfly or just move to Spring+Tomcat in general. Oracle DB is a thing at many, many major enterprises, and the price tag isn’t that much worse than Micro$oft SQL Server Datacenter Edition, if you’re at that tier. Oracle DB is absolute dogshit, but a lot of guillotine bait types seem to be fond of forcing it on their IT departments.