Re:Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering
by serge2k on Monday September 19, 2016 @02:12PM
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Is Aliyun that big?
Re:Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering
by gaius on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:23AM
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Big in China, and China is big... Believe they are 4th largest overall at the moment but who can keep up with the ever changing league tables? I am planning to kick the tyres on them this weekend actually.
Re:Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering
by paulddraper on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:57PM
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Who's Aliyun?
Exactly. The idea that Oracle can catch up based on pricing & machine specs ("36 CPU cores, 512GB of D-RAM") is really naive.
My current position on this is that IaaS is pretty much over. Aliyun & AWS seem like they're going to dominate. Microsoft & Google & others fight for the rest. Maybe, just maybe, Oracle will catch up with the 'small' players, but I doubt Microsoft++ or Google will be sitting on their hands wondering how much DRAM Oracle is going to wow us all with next.