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Re:Oracle Said to Be Leading Anti-Amazon Lobby on Pentagon C... by manigandham on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:16PM (#16840741)
The Oracle cloud is available to anyone and comes with $300 of credit: https://cloud.oracle.com/home

Ignore the comments and just try it. Run an instance for a weekend, try to setup a site or install a DB and see how it goes. I think you'll learn very quickly why the reputation exists.

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Re:Oracle Said to Be Leading Anti-Amazon Lobby on Pentagon C... by gpm on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:04PM (#16840908)
The pricing seems... really weird. Many very different offerings are priced exactly the same. E.g.

VM.Standard.1.1 and VM.Standard1.16, same cost but the latter has 16 cores instead of 1 (same CPU), 112 GB memory instead of 7.

https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/iaas/pricing

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Re:Oracle Said to Be Leading Anti-Amazon Lobby on Pentagon C... by manigandham on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:07PM (#16840915)
The pricing is per OCPU (Oracle CPU core) per hour. 16 cores = 16x the listed price for a single core. But yes, the table is a perfect example of how bad everything is.
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Re:Oracle Said to Be Leading Anti-Amazon Lobby on Pentagon C... by Spooky23 on Sunday April 15, 2018 @09:25PM (#16846077)
If you ever think you understand the price of anything Oracle, take it as a signal that you are wrong.
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