Re:Oracle to Amazon: It’s on
by bane on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:59PM
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Oracle has got to be struggling to meet internal growth metrics. They've clearly lost out on the low and medium dB market with so many very good and cheap/free (beer and freedom) choices. In the "internet-scale" market they aren't really offering much leaving them flanked into the large corp market.
That's still a very lucrative market, but I would guess that options from both the low and high end are starting to erode new sales opportunities and they might be losing some outright. e.g. it used to be the default in government IT systems to just stamp in "Oracle dB" in high level architecture diagrams and not get fired, but now postgres and other alternatives are being seriously considered and used.
"Oracle dBA" is being replaced with "dBA with experience in X, Y and Z databases" in many job reqs as well.
They still have huge enterprise license agreements, particularly in the fed space, but as budgets get cut those are simply being reconsidered.
This isn't really a move for "today", but for where Oracle will continue to vector if nothing is done over the next 3-5 years.
That's still a very lucrative market, but I would guess that options from both the low and high end are starting to erode new sales opportunities and they might be losing some outright. e.g. it used to be the default in government IT systems to just stamp in "Oracle dB" in high level architecture diagrams and not get fired, but now postgres and other alternatives are being seriously considered and used.
"Oracle dBA" is being replaced with "dBA with experience in X, Y and Z databases" in many job reqs as well.
They still have huge enterprise license agreements, particularly in the fed space, but as budgets get cut those are simply being reconsidered.
This isn't really a move for "today", but for where Oracle will continue to vector if nothing is done over the next 3-5 years.