>Comparable in size? You're obviously including Amazon's retail side, since AWS is only $3B of amazon's revenue [0] (vs 37B in revenue for Oracle).
And you're obviously including something in calculating Oracle's size, since Oracle's cloud business is $0 IIRC -- which is much smaller compared to AWS's $3B.
$0? Ya know, oracle is a public company.. So it's easy to check and see you're clearly wrong.
Try $1 billion annually in saas revenue
Still much less than AWS, and far short of the $37 billion mentioned.
difference is that the remainder of Amazon sales are retail sales. the remainder of Oracle's sales are software (and some hardware).
As another commenter already mentioned, what's there to include on Oracle's side for cloud offering. I obviously talk about two large corporations, both with more than 100k employees and tens of billions revenue. Pretty comparable I think.
Saying they are comparable is saying that when Oracle sells a DB license and Amazon sells a toaster, these are only different in the amount of money the generate. They both have equal experience with software, even though Amazon's experience involves putting an item in a box and putting a label on it.
0. http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-ser...?