The author of the article brought up a valid question. Does the silence on the subject means that Oracle doesn’t plan to invest in the on-premises server market anymore, and does this mean that they are gradually abandoning this market? I get that the cloud is in the focus right now, but I found it weird that officials had nothing to say about on-premises servers.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3317564/data-center/is-oracles-silence-on-its-on-premises-servers-cause-for-concern.html
The only thing oracle plans to invest in is oracle share to prop up the stock price and a few meaningless acquisition to pretend to care about the future. Oracle is dead company digging its grave. It’s over and done with. No future, nada.
not shocking at all. Oracle has ben very clear about onprem since last year.
not only sparc, but all onprem portfolio is no more an Oracle's priority. not even a secondary option.
onprem is just something that we have in the portfolio but must NOT be sold unless you have a very valid reason. and no, unfortunately what customer wants/needs is not a good reason.
all development now is focused on cloud, exadata (exalogic is dead since a long time ago) is first engineered as ExaCS, then adapted in ExaCC and finally sized down to Exa. whoever buys an Exa today is either not very well informed, or just stupid. you can get more performances and availability at much lesser price, and without being tied hands and feet to Oracle.
Where have you been hiding? Oracle hasn't "invested" in servers for years and got rid of all the Sun execs in hardware dev, product mgmt, and only sell hardware now to themselves. There's very few customers who're seeking to buy hardware from Oracle. Most of the install base are desperately trying to move off any old Sun hardware and go to cloud solutions (not Oracle's) because there's no future.