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‘You are locked in, baby’: Oracle’s Larry Ellison redoubles attack on Amazon Web Services
In his customary combative style, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison today spent more than an hour slamming Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing as inferior on several fronts to the software giant’s own cloud. Ellison (above), who had already thrown pointed barbs at Amazon Web Services Sunday evening in his first keynote at Oracle’s OpenWorld customer and partner ...
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd predicts sweeping, costly move to the cloud
Some 80 percent of information technology budgets by 2025 will be spent on cloud computing, not traditional IT products, and the number of corporate-owned data centers will drop by 80 percent by then. That’s according to Oracle Corp. co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd, who issued a series of sweeping predictions about the impact of cloud computing ...
Oracle’s Larry Ellison unveils new cloud services at OpenWorld: ‘Amazon’s lead is over’
It’s no secret that Oracle Corp. was late to cloud computing, which founder and Chairman Larry Ellison in 2009 infamously called “complete gibberish.” Now, the company is looking to banish any doubts that it’s all-in on the cloud. On Monday, the database and business software giant will introduce, among many other new services, both an ...