I particularly liked this comment froma an Oracle-SAP analyst
"Shaun Snapp - SAP & Oracle Researcher at Brightwork Research & Analysis
There is a fundamental reason why costs can't go down with Oracle....aside from Oracle always being the most expensive option in everything unless the other option is SAP -- and this is because Oracle has no real cloud. Everything must be set up manually by Oracle resources. There is no intelligence built into the Oracle Cloud. Therefore, Oracle lacks scale economies. Oracle is a company whose strategy is controlled by salespeople, which have a short term mindset. The idea in Oracle is you lie rather than investing. You look for opportunities to exploit labor. You have 25,000 sales cheezeballs running around babbling about things like the "automated database" without an understanding of what they are saying. If a company has not set up its cloud offering with any intelligence, as Oracle has not, they can never be a low-cost option. That is unless they subsidize this business from another area. This is what Microsoft is doing with Azure. Oracle could do this. They have 90%+ margins in their support, http://example.com/2MEPwaC, but Oracle is not doing this. "
shocking!!!!! so someone outside Oracle knows the truth!!!! Shaun, you know that you will be killed by our cheezeballs lawyers after having said the above right? :)
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This deserves it's own thread.