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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. 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.

    1. Re:Oracle Social Network by Freaky+Spook · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Also knowing Oracle's licensing model.

      You buy a license per friend you add
      You pay per photo upload
      You also pay per click when friends click on your photo
      You get an allocated number of status updates a month, and after that allocation you pay per message.
      You also need to buy Premium support in case your account gets hijacked.
      If you want to move to another social network, you need to pay Oracle to return your data to you.

  3. 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...
     

  4. Another Oracle patent by Alien+Being · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A cloud with no silver lining.

  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. Link to the service itself by philj · · Score: 3, Informative

    Link here: https://cloud.oracle.com/mycloud/f?p=service:home:0

    1. 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."

  7. SAP bought Ariba by aslanuk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  8. Ship's already sailed by sandytaru · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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