I get the urge to have a more diversified line of products, but I really don't get why Oracle is putting so much effort and resources into the Hybrid cloud, as it is a transitional solution that will be on the market until everybody goes completely to the cloud.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3328787/hybrid-cloud/oracle-introduces-hybrid-cloud-solution-for-its-own-cloud.html
The cloud is another race to the bottom, remember the big race to capture the PC market. Anyone with a brain is doing some form of hybrid cloud. First time another provider offers a better deal, a few clicks and they have migrated. The smart ones will have at least two clouds in use with some type of load balancing, so they don't suffer downtime when one of them goes bust on their race to the bottom.
Oracle can sell anything it damn well wants to sell. What it really needs is a personality transplant. Who really has any faith left in Larry, his co-CEOs and what is apparently a rubber stamp BoD? Oracle could come up with the next big thing in IT -maybe that’s the autonomous database- but who is going to trust them not to keep threatening and royally screwing customers with software audits? They just changed Java licensingwhich will be confusing and more expensive now, which will affect lots of products I support. God help Oracle’s customers and employees.
Only things Oracle really has going for it is database and Netsuite. Both are LE's babies. Netsuite was blatant self dealing but actually good thing it existed.
Want desperately to keep customers on Oracle sw and infrastructure services as much and as long as possible. If they run on anything, then O is a much smaller software company.
hybrid cloud and multi-cloud make sense because they reflect the reality of customers not being "all-in" on any single vendor or approach. there will always be a blend and what will differ will be the blend. sure, there will be pure cloud customers who only want one vendor but that will likely be the exception.
There's plenty of sensitive stuff people will always want to keep on-premises.