It should be no mystery why MH loves the cloud. MH is know for being an aggressive cost cutter, doing so much cost cutting he does damage to every company he works for. He now has a platform to take this message to all the corporations in the world. For MH the platform of reducing cost and head count is the cloud.
Jan 31st 2018
http://www.eweek.com/cloud/oracle-ceo-urges-enterprises-to-ditch-data-centers-and-move-to-cloud
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said the proliferation of Silicon Valley IT companies that offered enterprises a plethora of choices for their IT systems has produced complex and costly data centers that should be replaced by cloud systems.
In a keynote here at Oracle’s Modern Supply Chain Experience conference Jan. 30, Hurd said innovation and adoption of new technology in the enterprise is stifled because a huge portion of IT budgets is spent maintaining older systems. (Most of this cost is employee related)
“Most of IT is spent on the status quo and keeping old systems running. The average age of apps is 20 years old and they weren’t built for mobile or the web,” said Hurd. (Outdated technology supported by costly outdated employees)
“You now have (expensive) IT staffs trying to put all this together and that’s why there is no money; it’s been built as a kludge of independent systems that don’t work together,” said Hurd.
And the industry is buying in. They see it as a great way to "Reduce a large IT staff."
Schwartz has experience working at other companies with on-premises systems that required patching and updates. “We just don’t have the staff to do all that work anymore. We looked at Oracle Cloud as a lower cost, but still powerful solution,” said Schwartz. “It’s also has a faster implementation than any on-premise solution and doesn’t require a large IT staff.
Wow MH has found the perfect medium to reduce costly IT staff everywhere. He is evangelizing his message from the roof tops while he preps for the next massive round of layoffs in his own company. Still over $ 400M to spend on severance packages.
Only time will tell the truth. You now need DBAs and admins that know how to run technology in the cloud. In the long run you just added a bullet item to an expensive resume. The cost of hiring people with the right skill sets go up. The only people you get rid of are the guys that network and cable and install servers on premises. They just move their jobs to the cloud providers.
I met with an Oracle customer that was shocked to find out they still had to administer their own databases in the cloud. Guess they have to hire back the DBA they just let go. In my opinion MH is doing irreparable damage to Oracle and to the customer base.
After all the seasoned people are let go in sales, support and now development. Oracle will be a complete mess in short order. The foolish customers that buy into this philosophy will be burned. All this will come to a head March 31st and June 1st as the seasoned employees are walked out the door and no one is left who can fix the issues.
The customers are following suit. They will be in trouble too. I see all this coming to a head in the next year or two.