A marvellous company. No really, it is, legally speaking, I can't say anything bad about it.
Hurd clings to Oracle’s cloud growth as overall revenue declines
Mark Hurd, joint chief exec at Oracle, has come out as predictably bullish on the company's cloud prospects, stating in an interview that customers can't get enough of its fluffy white stuff. Speaking to The Telegraph, Hurd said compared with 12 or 15 months ago "the customer is more excited about and open to the cloud". He …
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Wednesday 14th October 2015 15:33 GMT Matt Bryant
Re: AC
".....Microsoft....." Having discussed this over more than a few beers I'm still a bit unsure of the real market movement, but I think the majority of Oracle's problem can be assigned to the walled-garden nature of their offering. In the old days they had Oracle software users over a barrel - if you had Oracle DB you really were too scared to move off it and suffered the steep costs - but that no longer applies. Other vendors will let you run what you like on their cloud, they don't punish you for it as Oracle are perceived to. Microsoft, for example, will actually help you run MariaDB on Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-mariadb-cluster/). When our Oracle cloud rep came round earlier this year I did propose the idea of running MariaDB (the FOSS fork of Oracle's MySQL) on Oracle's cloud just to see the colour the rep turned - most amusing!
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