Does anyone know who are Oracle's top hardware clients? Who buys the most servers from them?
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Oracle, oracle and oracle is oracle’s ONLY real HW client
"All three of them switched to Linux on X86 years"
They still ended up purchasing Exadata/"Cloud@Customer" in significant quantities. AT&T and Bank of America were big enough deals that Oracle cloud-washed them and used them as examples of how Oracle is a "Cloud" company.
On-premise hardware, specifically "cloud enabled" Exadata is still a major strategy for Oracle to have revenue and delay the move of customers to any real Cloud. Oracle lost on capturing any regular workloads, but their licensing terms and threats of audits are enough to keep many customers boxed in.
Mostly consumed by cloud (both OCI, OCI-C) and engineered systems (Exadata, ZDLRA, ODA). I believe customers buying X86 servers from Oracle is pretty low.
Chase, American Express, Bank of America
b---s---. All three of them switched to Linux on X86 years ago. And nobody buys X86 hardware from Oracle to run Linux.
Chase, US Army, American Express, Home Depot, Bank of American, UPS, to name a few.
They buy most of it for internal use. External customers left long ago and once the Sun hardware development stopped and engineers were rif'd - who in their right mind would buy hardware from these clowns?