Comments on: Shocker! Oracle takes on Amazon with all-Oracle-all-the-time cloud

By: Shamseer K Palayil

Shamseer K Palayil — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:05:36 +0000

A great move from Oracle indeed!!!

By: Robert J. Berger

Robert J. Berger — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:21:54 +0000

See the dinosaurs play as the meteor approaches their world.

By: Santosh Singh

Santosh Singh — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:02:24 +0000

Amazon, Google and Microsoft were quick enough to embark on the cloud strategies. Now Oracle was left over to do something radical or just be a follower. They went for first option. It will be great to watch how it performs as all-Oracle will definitely be not my option looking from Corporate risk management. Understood from past Oracle pricing option it will also be not the most budget saving solution for CIOs and CFOs.
However appreciate Larry for his bold and radical step. Hope he believes in self and as a consumer let see what we get.

By: All-Oracle-Red

All-Oracle-Red — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:40:44 +0000

Larry’s on a deserted isle here! Wow . .I’m in awe here . . Oracle . . .all-Oracle . .all-the-time! . . .

No where to go but Oracle!

By: khash

khash — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:33:56 +0000

Oracle’s Ellison has again waited just long enough but not too long. The techno stack they are now able to offer is so mature, powerful and dense that they are able to beat any competitor by price per transaction resp. per “MIPS”. This could indeed mark a fundamental change in Oracle’s market approach from pricey quality products to low cost quality services. And it could mean finally a big step in energy efficient computing.

By: scott herson

scott herson — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:00:28 +0000

Another Bellwether enters the #iaaS space (in addition to GOOG, HP, IBM) – great sign for the industry!

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By: James Paul Peruvankal

James Paul Peruvankal — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:30:23 +0000

Any thing they can do to keep the existing customers!

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:43:01 +0000

i think oracle is hoping so

By: brianmccallion

brianmccallion — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:33:23 +0000

Once you add in all the enterprise software licenses and the “fixed infrastructure bias” towards vertical scaling of known, stable systems running on large specialized hardware the economics of operating applications at scale breaks down. Application servers like Weblogic have so much invested in operating in a static stable environment that key factors such as how long it takes for a jvm to start (takes a long time with WebLogic compared to Tomcat) have been set aside in favor of adding many features that in cloud infrastructure can be achieved better by consuming them as services. Weblogic and enterprise application servers were designed for a world of brittle, narcissistic, and solipsistic infrastructure. In the Cloud specialization determines the viability of a species and hothouse flowers like enterprise application servers will likely fail to thrive in any Cloud. It’s a Utopian experiment to build an enterprise Cloud and some may survive given enough believers.

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:00:28 +0000

This would be an interesting way to provide cloud services to larger enterprises because hardware/database level multi-tenancy means an easier way to provide the security that the kind of customers Oracle has need. However, if it means moving to a completely new database product/version then why would they choose this over other products? Perhaps to maintain a single vendor/support contract?