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Amazon Cloud Chief Jabs Oracle: 'Customers Are Sick of It' (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the tussle-continues dept.

It's no secret that Amazon and Oracle don't see eye to eye. But things are far from improving, it appears. From a report: On Wednesday, two months after Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd called Amazon's cloud infrastructure "old" and claimed his company was gaining share, Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy slammed Oracle for locking customers into painfully long and expensive contracts. "People are very sensitive about being locked in given the experience they've had the last 10 to 15 years," Jassy said on Wednesday on stage at Amazon's AWS Summit in San Francisco. "When you look at cloud, it's nothing like being locked into Oracle." Jassy was addressing a cultural shift in the way technology is bought and sold. No longer does the process involve the purchase of heavy proprietary software with multi-year contracts that include annual maintenance fees. Now, Jassy says, it's about choice and ease of use, including letting clients turn things off if they're not working.

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  1. Re:Attitudes by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Me: I don't want your clouds, why should I waste my bandwidth and endure slow access times when I can store my files and my backups locally?

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  2. Re:Attitudes by hawguy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Me: I don't want your clouds, why should I waste my bandwidth and endure slow access times when I can store my files and my backups locally?

    If you're storing your files and backups locally, then you don't really have "backups", you just another copy of data that will be lost in the fire/flood/tornado, whatever.

  3. Since when? by epyT-R · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since when is SaaS not all about lock in?

  4. Re:Attitudes by ranton · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Me: I don't want your clouds, why should I waste my bandwidth and endure slow access times when I can store my files and my backups locally?

    If you're storing your files and backups locally, then you don't really have "backups", you just another copy of data that will be lost in the fire/flood/tornado, whatever.

    When I read his comment I can't tell if he was mocking anti-cloud IT folk or actually is one. It's too hard to tell.

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  5. Bring it on! by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like the fight: competition in action. I wish telecoms would bash each other over forced bundling, lousy reliability, lousy customer service, etc. etc. etc. etc.

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  6. Of course they're sick of it by DeplorableCodeMonkey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oracle is such an entrenched, parasitic, rent-seeking corporate shit pile compared to most of the industry that they make even staunchly conservative capitalists tempted for a split second to raise the sickle and hammer after dealing with them.