This post has 16 up-votes, can't be that wrong....
I have deep insight into what is happening with OCI from a business standpoint. And I can tell you that it is not only the largest s— of dollars in the company, but OCI is running at an EXTREME deficit. OCI takes in as revenue only a tiny tiny percentage of what it costs to operate the business. It is HIGHLY unprofitable.
Oracle made a bet that OCI revenues will pick up enough over the next two years that it becomes a business that at least breaks even. Even the migration of Oracle’s internal properties (SaaS, database) onto OCI isn’t nearly enough to drive utilization to where it needs to be to reach the break-even point.
The pure fact is, that OCI is NOT gaining net new customers and is NOT taking ANY customers from AWS, Azure or GCP. A few existing Oracle customers are putting isolated projects onto OCI, but NOBODY is migrating their entire software app portfolios or data centers to OCI — let alone developers choosing OCI as their platform to develop, test and deploy on.
Don’t let the cheerleaders and propagandists fool you — OCI is in a race for its life (and Oracle’s survival as a company) — and this is a race that is very slowly being lost, every day, as customers defect to other clouds and make choices other than Oracle.
This is strong payback for decades where Oracle and its employees abused customers badly. >Payback is a biotch !!
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OCI is definitely going to "melt away".
Then there's NetSuite, or what's left of it. I just saw a NetSuite commercial the other day. They are trying to sell stuff there, but on the other hand, someone is actually suing Oracle for being forced to sell NetSuite vaporware! So, so much for NetSuite.
Then there's the DB, and we all know how that's going. AWS removed all traces of it, big money to be found in removing Oracle DB from IT shops. It's the new rage in IT, remove Oracle DB no matter what it costs.
When you are in a company that is the target of large sums of money, to REMOVE it, you know you are working in the wrong place.
Oracle is a dead company walking.