A note on OCI. LE believes he can win the cloud race with superior cloud software. SC believes that its not wise to invest billions in infrastructure in the hopes that customers may adopt Oracle Cloud. So you will continue to have what you have always had, a few rented Equinix datacenters running the OCI.
This is supposed to compete with the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in real cloud datacenters by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Really?
If you don't get it, which LE clearly does not. Infrastructure and networking matters. Right now if you have modern cloud native applications running in AWS and you need to get information out of an Oracle database running in OCI your options are limited. You can route traffic over the public internet or pay to lay dark fiber or some sort of dedicated network from the AWS datacenter to the Equinix datacenter. Why incur this extra cost.
I was employed at Oracle back in 2017 when we sold a 15k OCI deal to a customer and this issue came up. The cost of the direct connect was 50k a month. So our deal went from 15k to 615k in the blink of an eye. Do you think the customer bought? Nope they walked to a real cloud provider.
Its easier and cheaper to use a NoSQL solution like MongoDB, Couchbase etc... and rewrite the app to use JSON instead of relational than to deal with this nonsense.
TK was president of Oracle back then and he quit and walked to Google. He knew it was total nonsense.
I am not saying anything bad about the Oracle OCI software. I am simply referring to the laws of physics. The speed of light and network latency are real physical issues not solved in anyway by better software.
The cool kids with the real clouds are developing newer and better cloud offerings everyday. Their software with machine learning, data warehousing, databases, networking, and scalability and high availability offering is growing by leaps and bounds. They are even building fast private network connections between the major cloud providers.
You think Oracle OCI can keep up with all of that? No way possible.
OCI can not possibly compete now or ever. This is why Oracle is losing database market share. It is quickly fading into obscurity as all legacy technologies eventually do. Working for Oracle means the norm is continued layoffs. The employee base will become cheaper, and fewer to keep profitability high as Oracle shrinks into greatness.
by Harbinger
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