Why would anyone want Oracle Cloud?

Solaris/SPARC and Sun were sitting pretty just around the time when OpenSolaris is gathering steam. However, when Oracle took over the decided to closed it down – Oracle closed down links to high spending markets and then arrogantly refused to work with external software vendors if they had products that competed with Oracle’s products. This was the end…

They also dropped ranges for telecommunications systems (DC power) claiming special essential requirements - whereas the competition had no issues putting DC power supplies into off the shelf systems.

The focus became big iron for Oracle only workloads. If you weren't buying M5/6/7 or Exa, you were a nobody, period…

And, then, they f---ing dropped the blades.

So, a quick question for MH – with all of this said, why would anyone want Oracle Cloud?

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Agree that OpenSolaris was a flop. The community growth attempts I saw had Sun loading up the committees with Sun people so then had all these mundane regulations to restrict external contribution. Pony tail equated OpenSolaris downloads to be like real revenue. He was proud of the millions of OpenSolaris downloads but couldn't turn that into REVENUE.

There is no oracle cloud, it's all cloud washed revenue to make it seem like oracle has a cloud business

Opensolaris was a big failure at the beginning. The code and project contribution process was too complicated. There were very few community contribution.

Oracle does not have a cloud. It's all dedicated hosting. Don't think otherwise.

How about not using it because it's inferior and expensive to much better clouds?

The logic checks out

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