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Oracle's Ellison Vows "Most Comprehensive Cloud On Earth"

Posted by samzenpus on from the silver-lining dept.

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."

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  1. What's he going to call it? by theNetImp · · Score: 4, Funny

    The "rain cloud"?

    1. Re:What's he going to call it? by Jon_E · · Score: 4, Funny

      yeah .. the huge one that blots out what's left of the Sun (pun intended) ..

  2. Re:Ellison's Cload Dream by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    +1 low effort cloadsourced astroturf.

  3. Oracle Social Network by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Ellison's Cload Dream by arth1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Larry Ellison has been talking about the cloud for years he has openly said the client / server configuration is stupid.

    Is this the same Larry Ellison who said that PCs were doomed and the future was client-server models with thin clients - especially his Network Computer?

    Don't you guys all reply on your Oracle NCs at the same time, now...
     

  5. DevOps Borat got this covered. by eddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oracle Cloud is combine best of both world: cheap of Oracle Enterprise DB and simple of J2EE.

    source

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  6. Re:Link to the service itself by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 3, Funny

    Heh. "DATABASE: The Oracle database you love, now in the cloud".

    "DINNER: The coppery taste you love, now in larger portions."