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Oracle doesn't know Cloud? Thoughts?
Greetings!
My twitter feed is awash in stories of Oracle Open World. One of the guys I follow, David Linthicum (http://twitter.com/DavidLinthicum) is one of those thought leaders in cloud computing. He wrote an article for Infoworld entitled, "The Ugly Truth: Oracle Still Doesn't Get the Cloud". You can read it here: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/the-ugly-truth-oracle-still-doesnt-get-the-cloud-174826. The references in the article are a great read as well.
So here's my take after reading it: It's not the tech that's the problem but rather the pricing model.
Here's my open question to my friends who're at Oracle Open World: What's your thoughts on this article? Did you get this impression as well?
Rob
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October 16th, 2011 21:00
Nice article!
I agreed with his points @ some degree. He is correct Oracle is too huge and addicted to his business strategy approved with its success on enterprise software market.
From my preventive, Oracle is not in way of “Don’t get the cloud”, it does its business in the way of best benefit on its existing business model with leveraging its position on customer core application systems.
Eddy
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October 18th, 2011 09:00
Counter point on the Enterprise bit...
So Oracle has taken up "ownership" of mySQL. Oracle is clearly banking on mySQL to compete with Microsoft's SQL server. And it's a brilliant move. Most websites are running mySQL which comprises a fair amount of the SMB and smaller business class - it even includes personal bloggers/website owners/etc.
It's not cloud related but just wanted to clarify the point on Enterprise level stuff and mention the fact that Oracle has the consumer/small business in their pocket as well.
R.
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October 18th, 2011 13:00
Unfortunately 'open source' applications are not readily supported by EMC. And since EMC is aggressively pursuing the SMB market we should actively promote qualifying various versions as we did with Linux.
NP
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October 18th, 2011 19:00
Rob, nice illustration.
Cloud computing is changing position of who’s holding data and application on customer IT spending cycle. I definitely believe Oracle know how to leverage his current advantage to maintain his position in Cloud computing.
BTW about MySQL, I hate to see Oracle add some Enterprise feature on MySQL, that changes the best character of MySQL, I loved, LIGHT.
Eddy
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October 18th, 2011 19:00
“Aggressive updates and free development path” make many of people loved “Open source”, the various feature related various release make application deployment of “Open source” hard, but the version selection does depends on SMB customer self, how do we influence ‘em?
Eddy