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Re:Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020 by ignoramous on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:08PM (#28031099)
> Microsoft dangles carrots for Azure, but the Microsoft sales culture will start beating customers over the head with the carrots.

I reckon a good deal of Oracle sales force now works at AWS. Thomas Kurian, GCP CEO, is ex-Oracle and has likely hired more in leadership positions. MSFT would do fine, if not better, with their in-house sales team.

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Re:Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020 by samspenc on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:20PM (#28031563)
> I reckon a good deal of Oracle sales force now works at AWS. Thomas Kurian, GCP CEO, is ex-Oracle and has likely hired more in leadership positions.

Sorry just want to clarify: did you mean to say "reckon a good deal of Oracle sales force now works at GCE", so a typo? Or are you saying that a lot of the Oracle sales staff now work at AWS (even though Kurian who is ex-Oracle works at GCE)?

Not critiquing, just a honest question since I couldn't tell if it was a typo or not.

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Re:Google Cloud reported an operating loss of $5.6B in 2020 by ignoramous on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:29PM (#28031617)
No problem. I did indeed mean that per my estimates, AWS sales is likely bustling with ex-Oracles; while GCP may have them too, since the CEO himself was, by some accounts, #2 at Oracle.
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