Oracle CEO Mark Hurd claims he doesnrsquo;t “really worry so much aboutrdquo; Amazon Web Services.
That statement is either profoundly disingenuous or utterly ridiculous. Or perhaps Hurd and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, who launched this weekrsquo;s Oracle OpenWorld by fixating on AWS, trying mightily to convince attendees that AWSrsquo;s cloud pales in comparison to Oraclersquo;s cloud.You know, the same Oracle cloud that canrsquo;t even muster a Top 10 place in Gartnerrsquo;s list of leading IaaS providers.
For IaaS, Gartner pegs AWS cloud revenues at more than 80X times Oraclersquo;s.
Even in the PaaS market, where Oracle has seen more growthmdash;bumping up from 1.1 percent market share to 2 percent in 2016mdash;itrsquo;s still just a tenth the size of AWS, which saw its PaaS share boom from 13.7 percent to 19.8 percent in the same period.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
That statement is either profoundly disingenuous or utterly ridiculous. Or perhaps Hurd and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, who launched this weekrsquo;s Oracle OpenWorld by fixating on AWS, trying mightily to convince attendees that AWSrsquo;s cloud pales in comparison to Oraclersquo;s cloud.You know, the same Oracle cloud that canrsquo;t even muster a Top 10 place in Gartnerrsquo;s list of leading IaaS providers.
For IaaS, Gartner pegs AWS cloud revenues at more than 80X times Oraclersquo;s.
Even in the PaaS market, where Oracle has seen more growthmdash;bumping up from 1.1 percent market share to 2 percent in 2016mdash;itrsquo;s still just a tenth the size of AWS, which saw its PaaS share boom from 13.7 percent to 19.8 percent in the same period.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here