Nobody wants OCI. Just being honest. Selling it as a rep or tech\architect is like having your nails removed with plyers. Most customers are ready to slam the door in your face. The only saving grace you have is if they like you personally - they will appease you. Despite the marketing and empty words, it was a matter of time. They started years ago giving the architects ridiculous responsibilities as they laid off people in integration and security sales. That was phase 1. Phase 2 was starting to replace people with the centers with young people who really know nothing about enterprise challenges or company challenges even. Then they got rid of those and brought them directly in with architects. Even though they might know a fraction of what an experienced person would because it takes time. If it is only a technology question they were capable. If it was really finding the answers to business solutions given the environment, they would fall short. However, once all these things happened and with the demand for OCI not being much in reality, it was only a matter of time and I think it is going to get worse.
All this multi-cloud talk from Oracle is nothing but admitting that they failed at gaining real market share. That is the truth. Now Oracle is spinning it as if they had an epiphany when in reality it is the proverbial white flag.
Originally posted by @bni+1jm49eUv.