Oracle to Amazon: It’s on

Re:Oracle to Amazon: It’s on by rb2k_ on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:04PM (#6967478)

The main problem that I see with this:

- most people dislike Oracle

- most people like Amazon

So I think at least initially, it will be about "approachability" rather than price and technical equivalency.

Everyone programmer can usually spin up an ec2 instance after about 10 minutes. With Oracle, I have the feeling that just registering to see documentation will probably be more than 10 minutes and you'd end up in a database somewhere to receive emails/phonecalls a few weeks later.

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Re:Oracle to Amazon: It’s on by possibilistic on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:11PM (#6967512)

I agree with your sentiment. I would have trouble putting trust in Oracle.

But regardless of my feelings, only the people making the decisions on where to spend the money matter. Oracle has made it their business to be very good at converting those people.

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Re:Oracle to Amazon: It’s on by Iftheshoefits on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:21PM (#6967555)

Oracle has its tentacles deeply embedded in the enterprise space, especially in certain very niche and demanding markets (e.g. healthchare). They're "disliked" in the same way Microsoft is in these spaces, and "dying" in much the same way (i.e. not any time soon).

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