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posted by chromas on Friday August 03 2018, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the never-saw-it-coming dept.

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CNBC reports Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020:

Amazon's emergence as a major provider of data center technology has turned many of its longtime suppliers, including Oracle, into heated rivals.

Now Amazon is dealing yet another blow to Oracle. The e-commerce giant, having already moved much of its infrastructure internally to Amazon Web Services, plans to be completely off Oracle's proprietary database software by the first quarter of 2020, according to people familiar with the matter.

The shift is another sign of Amazon's rapid ascent in enterprise computing and further shows how much Oracle is struggling to keep pace as businesses move workloads to the cloud and away from traditional data centers. Propelled in part by expansion at AWS, which reported 49 percent revenue growth for the second quarter, Amazon passed Alphabet earlier this year to become the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world.

Meanwhile, Oracle is about the same size it was four years ago and the stock is just above where it was trading at the end of 2014. Oracle shares dropped by about 1 percent after the initial report Wednesday.

[...] The primary issue Amazon has faced on Oracle is the inability for the database technology to scale to meet Amazon's performance needs, a person familiar with the matter said. Another person, who said the move could be completed by mid-2019, added that there hasn't been any development of new technology relying on Oracle databases for quite a while.

Amazon's infrastructure is certainly not foolproof. The company's constant need for capacity upgrades turned into a near crisis during Amazon's Prime Day shopping extravaganza last month, when the company's systems proved incapable of handling a sudden traffic surge.

[...] The two companies have been in a heated war of words. Last year Oracle executives boasted about the cost advantages of using its database software. AWS CEO Andy Jassy fired back a few weeks later in an interview with CNBC, saying that Oracle is "a long way away in the cloud."

I have some Oracle experience from many years ago. Even then it was known for being very expensive, but it DID have all kinds of "knobs" you could adjust to tweak out extra performance that other databases just could not [easily] match. How well does Oracle compete today? Would you say they were worth the expense?


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  • (Score: 2) by schad on Friday August 03 2018, @03:42PM (4 children)

    by schad (2398) on Friday August 03 2018, @03:42PM (#716760)

    Just how many dicks have you seen to be able to state that with authority?

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 03 2018, @04:43PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 03 2018, @04:43PM (#716792) Journal

    Without regard to CEOs, probably about as many as most people.

    As for CEOs, none.

    Given that there are some CEOs who do not act like the biggest pricks on the planet, I would speculate that the ones that act like the biggest pricks are deeply unhappy about something they are unable to fix and taking it out on other people. If what they were deeply unhappy about were obvious, then such speculation about why would not occur.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 2) by mrpg on Friday August 03 2018, @06:31PM (2 children)

      by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <reversethis-{gro ... yos} {ta} {gprm}> on Friday August 03 2018, @06:31PM (#716850) Homepage

      Yes.

      "compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area. Compensation can cover up either real or imagined deficiencies and personal or physical inferiority."

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensation_(psychology) [wikipedia.org]

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by schad on Friday August 03 2018, @07:52PM (1 child)

        by schad (2398) on Friday August 03 2018, @07:52PM (#716934)

        I think you're thinking too hard.

        The simpler explanation is that most people are bullies. They just haven't got the resources to act on it, or maybe they are deterred by the fear of losing all their friends. Well, Ellison's got the resources, and as long as he's rich he'll always be able to make new friends. I can respect his honesty, I suppose.

        If you don't believe me, spend some time on your local PTA or HOA. You'll see just how petty and tyrannical "nice" people can become when you give them the slightest bit of power.

        • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @08:17PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @08:17PM (#716954)

          Nah, it is self-selecting because people who desire power seek it out and the people who won't act like tyrants are the ones who avoid the situation in the first place.

          Most people are decent and the busy bodies do their best to get in a position to meddle.