They will study the demise of companies like Oracle and IBM. Started out with great leadership and vision. Then they let the financial wizards, sales, and marketing folks takeover. They got away from delivering great products and caring about their customers and employees. The goal of the company was to only enrich themselves. Then they became like Sears and KMart and eventually go bankrupt while new players innovate and take over.
If you don't learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.
More like a senile old guy who doesn't realize how old and senile he is and walks around pretending he's still a youngster. And all these parasites he surrounds himself with and pays millions just let him because that's what they are getting paid for, letting him live in his dream world and pretend that everything is just great. Dump the stock now!
The best description of LE taking on AWS someone told me (originally came from a cloud engineer that moved from Oracle to a competitor) was "It's like a Yorkie barking at a passing train!"
Perfect analogy! Exactly right.
Slideware. You can say anything you want but can you actually deliver on it? How many times are things mentioned to only be delivered years and years later over budget and behind schedule?
The best description of LE taking on AWS someone told me (originally came from a cloud engineer that moved from Oracle to a competitor) was "It's like a Yorkie barking at a passing train!"
AWS releases 1000 new web services a year. There is no way Oracle with RIFs and WFH programs can beat that.
Bull...
We have tried this "automation" thing before and it is a complete disaster. FA cloud is supposed to be totally automated. But it is really just an excuse not to hire any competent admin people. So instead we have PDIT (which has no real engineers) running our SaaS cloud. The result is continuous outages and other screw ups that would be trivial for a competent administration team to avoid. You need real programmers to automate stuff. Oracle doesn't hire people like that for its SaaS stuff. I see no reason why the DBCS would be any different.
Total cost of ownership will still be way higher than using RedShift. You don't just license Oracle software, you get locked in and taken for a ride. This "automation" will just mean it will be that much harder for our customers to get help when we break their business.
The database with be called dbLITE and will consist of one table and will allow one connection while using no more than one core
Waiting for the price cuts.
The old expression for this was "vaporware".
It is good to have a dream. Keep dreaming.
Forgot the link
http://fortune.com/2017/09/14/ellison-database-beat-amazon/