* Posts by Jonathanvincenzo

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Our brave El Reg vulture sat through four days of Oracle OpenWorld to write this cracking summary just for you

Jonathanvincenzo

Oracle is still the best but....

Oracle won’t lose this game. They have the best db technology stack in the world, bar non in the rdbma space, Yes, the software is stupidly expensive to own and run. But the are the best. Most people I run into don’t dislike the actual product. They hate them company and the way it runs. If oracle could get out of its win at all costs mentality, the hate level would likely drop quite a bit. We all know a couple of shady(or downright nasty) reps and have had to tangle with them. If oracle treated us like partners(or even clients) and not “the enemy”, this wouldn’t be an issue.

Step one:remove those draconian licesne restrictition on VMware clusters! Oracles cloud on prem is niot in the same ballpark as VMware. Deal with it. That game is pretty much over and VMware won the datacenter virtualization race. The smart people take another persons great ideas and make them better. Or the leverage the best work to make their offering “better with”.

License models are nightmarishly expensive. And they should be,..we are not looking to by a yugo. We want a Maserati. The cost more because they are objectively a better car to go fast in. What irks people is simply that oracle has restricted our choice of deployments to on prem and their cloud. On prem, where we mostly virtualize these day gets prohibitively expensive because I cannot partition my workload. I have to license every cpu and core running in a VMware cluster, even if I’m not using it. Loosen that up, and you’d see on prem sales go up. It’s just a policy after all, not a change of code!

In summary:oracle sales needs to ease off on hiring the typeA people who push and push and threaten to get the win. Second, ease of on you vendetta against VMware. Let us leverage sub capacity license model on VMware. Finally, know that most of us love the product, we just feel like you have tied our hands with the attitude of not working well with others. These days, a single stack solution is always a compromise. As architects and developers we want to use the best too for the job. Acknowledge that it might not ALWAYS be your tools. You are in there, but as a piece of a larger whole