Once they look at AWS (or Azure for Window services), why would they want OPC? The only companies pick OPC are those who are already locked in Oracle DB. Amazon is moving way too fast in the cloud space. There is no way Oracle can catch that. Even if Oracle buys Rackspace, they still have less than 5% cloud market share.
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@eesse
And you need to start learning from history.
the computer industry has been bouncing between centralized and decentralized models since its inception. Cloud is just the latest centralization model reincarnation.
and there is no perfect security.
its people like you who will be eating your own words when 'the big hack' happens.
btw, heard of the wannacry virus and where the guts of it originated?
betcha thought the us gov spy outfits were not hackable either right?
Infrastructure people like the person who did the post immediately above need to stop living in the past. Sorry, although "cloud" is not a solution to all problems, cloud is not a fad. Thousands of very large customers trust AWS, Azure, and Salesforce to store sensitive data. The data centers (even some Oracle cloud data centers) are SOC2 and HIPAA compliant, which is not true of most on-prem data centers. Cloud in most cases is more secure. There isn't going to be "one big hack."
For those who has doubt about cloud computing, look at Amazon's re-invent conference on youtube. There is a video from AWS architect to explain how they build AWS. It's AMAZING how much they invest in cloud infrastructure and how dedicated and focus their engineering teams are. AWS rolled out 1000 new web services in 2016.
OPC on the other hand is built like a top secret project. Internal software teams supporting OPC do not know what's going on. The core OPC team doesn't not share any info...deadline, schedule, progress, test result, etc. It's very hard to work with OPC team. Zero teamwork. Everybody in Oracle know cloud is the top priority but they don't know what do to. So they act like they are doing "something" and wish they will survive a few more years til they retire.
While the industry moved to cloud. Oracle bought a dead hardware company and tried to sell engineered systems. Even if AWS, Google, Azure stood still. It would be at least 5 years to catch up. Given the execution of the cloud strategy to date. Even that seems unlikely
But hey, SC's spreadsheet says oracle is going to make 80% margin on cloud. Boneheads
Oracle is spending a tiny fraction of what EACH of AWS, MSFT and Google are spending on cloud, delusional of LE to think he can compete with them
ONLY A MORON WHO WANTS A JOB AT ORACLE WILL BUY OPC!!
I tend to agree. One good leak of company data stored on the cloud and it will change everything.
I worked in Oracle in the cloud area, quit last year. Internally, engineering is a huge, huge mess in this area. Most of the developers have no clue what they are doing and the engineering management is worse.... looking at their spreadsheets with no idea how to manage software development.
I wouldn't store my data in the Oracle cloud. Something is bound to happen.
cloud is not safe, there only has to come one big hack and everyone wants again hardware onsite in private hands. cloud is good for starter companies and small companies, but i don't get it for big businesses giving away all the security to a 3rd party plus the network is a bottleneck if you need speed here is where opc makes sense. cloud is fashion it will disappear in a few years like we have seen with everything, something new comes and everyone wants to get on the train, then a new train passes by and wow lets go again.