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Larry Ellison Says 'Amazon's Lead is Over' As Oracle Unveils New Cloud Infrastructure (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shots-fired dept.

Oracle has unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers to run their applications in Oracle data centers. What is interesting about the announcement is that Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison claiming that "Amazon's lead is over. Amazon's going to have serious competition going forward." From a VentureBeat report: One particular instance, or virtual-machine (VM) type, that Oracle is making available in this second-generation offering -- the Dense IO Shape -- offers 28.8TB, 512GB, and 36 cores, at a price of $5.40 per hour. This product offers more than 10 times the input-output capacity of Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically the i2.8xlarge instance, said Ellison. Currently, AWS leads the cloud infrastructure market, with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM trailing behind. Oracle's public cloud was not included in the most recent version of Gartner's highly regarded cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant, which was released last month. "Oracle also does not have enough market share to qualify for inclusion," the authors of the report wrote.

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  1. Aw hell no by TFlan91 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can 100% see some fine print in their ToS that binds that person from ever using any other cloud vendor ever again.

    All this bad news recently circling Oracle doesn't lead credence to their reliability as a cloud vendor.

    1. Re:Aw hell no by tnk1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      At this point, just the name Oracle is enough to make me stay well away from their cloud. I have seen what they have done with their database and how they manage to wring what money they can out of the unsuspecting and have no interest in feeding that beast, even if their prices are rock bottom.

      AWS has its problems, but their pricing and product offering is not bad enough that I would go into the gutter to let that disease into my organization. I'd go Azure long before I'd go Oracle in any event. (Not that such a thought is something I consider appetizing either...)

  2. Wishful thinking by cyberthanasis12 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't trust/like the "cloud". I don't like AWS in particular. But if there was the slightest possibility that I had to use Oracle cloud, I would rather marry Amazon to escape.

  3. Competition....from Oracle? by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oracle is going to beat Amazon? Not Google, not Microsoft? Oracle? That strikes me as VERY unlikely. They might have the tech, but they're not going to have the customer base.

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  4. Re: That'll to be one to avoid PRICE HIKES on then by Esteanil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    * license fees not included. All computers connecting to the cloud must be separately licensed. Unlicensed connectees will be charged to site owner at a 600% penalty. Any use of competing cloud services incur license fees for all computers operating in or connecting to the entirety of said cloud service, charged to site owner.
    Site owner agrees Oracle holds title to first- through fifth-born.

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  5. Oracle's touch is poisonous by Wokan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oracle DB - Licensing prices capable of bringing down even the richest empire
    Java - Dead language walking on the client side. Server side use waning, though still has a lot of life remaining from Sun's stewardship (even with Sun's missteps).
    OpenOffice.org - About to be put out of its misery by Apache. Long live Libreoffice.
    VirtualBox - Decent for desktop virtualization and trying out other OSs. No real potential as an enterprise tool. Has somehow avoided getting screwed up by Oracle so far, but I expect the extensions package to monetized and licensed into oblivion any day.
    MySQL - lapped by MariaDB for anyone serious about security (see recent root access exploit)
    ZFS on Linux would be a non-issue if a company other than Oracle was involved in the matter.

  6. Re:Ellison is a terrorist by Jack9 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > who has singlehandedly done more damage to the software world

    That title is reserved by Bill Gates. WTF has Larry done to software? Nothing. I mean they took the baby MS steps of creating a walled garden of substandard software and letting their once decent product line fester and slowly moulder. Positioning to do it again is not any worse. Oracle fails to even come close to setting poor standards, wiping out standards, wiping out companies, creatior locking down hardware that MS achieved. What a warped perspective to imagine Oracle has affected the software profession (much less industry).

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  7. Re:Ellison is a terrorist by baboon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thank you. I post less than once a year, but I have to speak now. Modding up would not be good enough.

    I have stated almost this exact quote many, many times throughout my life, but always attributing the honor to "Bill Gates". It is truly tragic to consider where we could have been now, or even twenty years ago, if that ill-conceived cardboard substitute for an operating system hadn't been unleashed upon the world. Let us not forget.

    Windows is like a hollow plastic hammer. It appeals to the timid who are afraid of breaking anything. But once you actually try to get some work done, you realize that you are only playing with a toy.

    You're still using Windows? When you buy a frame, you're supposed to throw away the sample picture it comes with.