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Oracle's Ellison Vows "Most Comprehensive Cloud On Earth"
CWmike writes "Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared the company is ready to offer 'the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth,' during a webcast event on Wednesday. 'It's been a long time coming,' Ellison said of the Oracle Public Cloud, which encompasses Oracle's suite of Fusion Applications delivered as both SaaS (software as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) features, including the Java Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service. It's also the home of Oracle Social Network, the company's foray into Facebook-like collaboration tools for enterprises. Wednesday's event — and Twitter (where his first tweet is a gem) — also provided Ellison with an opportunity to tout what he called Oracle Public Cloud's many advantages over rivals such as SAP and Salesforce.com, as well as to engage in some of his traditional competitive trash talk."
The "rain cloud"?
I am for 100% natural clouds!
Larry Ellison has been talking about the cloud for years he has openly said the client / server configuration is stupid. His big hold up in the 90's was dial up now with everyone having dial up this is no longer a pipe dream. I am happy Oracle is pushing forward with this in Ellison book he talks extensively on cloud environment.
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It's a pretty slick interface. First you edit 5 different text files in various directories, then you run half a dozen commands from the command line, then you log in and do another half dozen commands before finally loading your friends and likes/dislikes lists, then you go out and buy more memory. But at last, you're ready to log in see what all your friends named "scott" are up to.
I'll PaaS on that.
The very word "cloud" is beginning to piss me off. And this just pushes it over the edge. I already hear tech ignorant MBA types blabbering on about cloud this and cloud that now that Oracle is involved its just going to reach a crescendo. In my day we just called it the internet, meh
Most Comprehensive Cloud On Earth
At a summit of political and military leaders from around the world, unanimous approval is given to a plan code-named "Operation Dark Storm", which aims to cut the machines off from the sun, their primary energy source. The plan is executed in 2095, with high altitude bombers dispersing sky-darkening nanomachines into the air, while the human armies simultaneously launch a ground offensive against the machine forces.
A cloud with no silver lining.
Insane egotistical CEO makes sweeping hyped-up statement.
Here's Tom with the weather
It's been raining here in New England for three weeks. The last thing we need is another cloud. Stick to boat racing Larry.
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Belief is the currency of delusion.
Link here: https://cloud.oracle.com/mycloud/f?p=service:home:0
This is pure headlines because SAP announced they are to acquire Ariba for $4.7bln a few weeks back. Ariba is the #1 SaaS procurement software vendor from sourcing through to payment. I beleive what made Ariba so valuable (10x revenue) was their network of businesses. I would not class myself as an expert but it appears that if you want to source, procure or invoice then you connect your business to your trading partners over this network - it was described as the Facebook for business. A quick guess would be this removes paper from the process, means everything's electronic, reduces cost and other PHB's wet dreams. Reading around it looks like Ariba was kicking Oracle and SAP's booty in this space and their network was growing at a huge rate. There is a lot of opinion on SAP's acquisition of Ariba but if Larry hasn't got this network part then it's Oracle On Demand by another name. I guess SAP think this network is the key, looked at google+ and realised that to build it themselves once an established player is in play is difficult.
Sound like a definite oxymoron to me. "Apprehensive Cloud" would be more fitting.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Cloud : A meaningless term that encompasses everything from network storage up to a fully virtualised system
By most of the industry definitions a desktop PC is a local single node cloud ...!
Put your data in the cloud, where the company hosting it can ransom it back to you
Run your business from the cloud, so if your internet connection goes down you have no business ....
Puteulanus fenestra mortis
It will run IA64 software, but only for the next 12 months, however, they will sign contracts with you to pledge support for that architecture.
It will run X86_64 software, but the licenses will cost 4 times as much as running SPARC software.
And the kicker:
The developers will all flee to another company and fork the project once enough momentum has been gained to impose a draconian license change
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
I prefer Harlan Ellison's Ideas instead.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
"Bake a pie, eat a pie."
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What? Give/have an abortion and flush the fetus away so that an underground society can call you father?
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I know he's the type of person that surrounds himself with yes men and sycophants because he seems oblivious to the notion that the world hates him and his company.
Oracle's relationships with it's customers resembles a hostage situation more than anything else. I imagine an Oracle sales rep as a crazed gunman making ever wilder and arbitrary demands while keeping your servers and data hostage.
At some point in every company's life their core products become obsolete. The company either adapts or dies. When new products/tech/models obslete Oracle's traditional offerings, and they can no longer leverage dependency on their software.. Who's going to buy Oracle's new offerings? Why would I go near Oracle if they're just interested in extorting money or suing me in oblivion?
Oracle's acquiring companies like Mad because the above is already starting to happen, but it won't work because the core of the company is Rotten. Maybe when Larry gets older, realizes his life is hollow, his presence in the world is toxic, and it's time to go in to "legacy building" as all old rich men do. Maybe then he'll start acting like a human being.
... Payment Plan, to boot, I'd wager.
When Ahboracle jumps on board with crap like this you know it has peaked.
I'm in Seattle. We already have widespread cloud coverage here.
Have gnu, will travel.
Their real competition in this space is Amazon, and they don't even seem to be addressing that. The majority of cloud work I've done lately has been using AWS instances. Yes, Salesforce has the big name for enterprise class ERP apps, but the big data crunching, file distribution, and work all seems to be happening with AWS these days.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
All kneel before the Death Cloud!
Oracle isn't competing with Salesforce.com. They have NO sales offering what-so-ever. They just bought RightNow which has a mediocre sales offering, but Oracles specifically told its customers it doesn't plan to invest any time into it, and Rightnow certainly hasn't over the past 10 years. So they basically have a bunch of SAAS ticketing systems, which are nice and work well, but they do not have anything that can even remotely touch salesforce.
Oracle lost, but they have not been forgiven or forgotten. Good luck picking them up as future customers with your me-too-but-costs-ten-times-as-much cloud offering. Oh, and there are quite a few of them already, with literally millions more every day.
It's like they decided that being the graveyard where apps go to die was not finite enough, so they moved it to the cloud...
We just finished implementing them for the internet database....
If you thought Oracle was not already cool enough just wait for the hosted grid version of rman and an even more incredibly "unbreakable" platform with the security record that makes Adobe look good.
Mr Ellison and crew always put a grin on my face ...how they are still in business with their outrageous pricing and dated technology I fear has a lot to do with massive government waste of our taxpayer dollars.
Now I can get that first rate Oracle support, coupled with their fantastically low prices, managed by a perfectly sane CEO, without any guarantee of being sued for something crazy.
It is probably a misquote. I am sure that he said expensive, not comprehensive.
It reflects Larry Ellison's "comprehension" of the online future.
Sadly, Larry Ellison is no Harlan Ellison. Bye-bye, Oracle.
They just can't decide, can they?
I guess Blizzard should be worried.
"Oracle's Ellison Most Comprehensive Clod On Earth"?
-- Terry
Well, the cloud he has cast over the computing industry in general seems fairly comprehensive.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
ORACLE (One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison)
..why is Oracle still in business ? Is it sadomasochism on the part of his victims ? Would be a nice explanation - sado-maso is real biz.
Then we will fight in the shade!