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Oracle is making a big push to move customers from aws and azure to their own cloud hosting. https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/global-region-expans

by Joeri 10y ago

Oracle is making a big push to move customers from aws and azure to their own cloud hosting. https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/global-region-expansion-011717.html https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/global-region-... Raising prices for hosting with the competitor makes perfect sense when viewed from that angle.

giis 10y ago
Remember, Oracle also forced 'Redhat' customers (who rely on Oracle DB) to their Linux in similar manner. Now I wonder BTRFS is not getting enough attention, because its started by Oracle and their history with open-source?
- mshook 10y ago
  The main btrfs devs who were at Oracle have been at Facebook for a while, so you can't blame Oracle for btrfs not moving along haha
- sllabres 10y ago
  Not an expert in Oracle DB licensing. Could you explain?
  - giis 10y ago
    I'm not expert in licensing too. I've friends who said, when they needed enterprise support for Oracle DB running on Redhat, directly/indirectly the message they received is to migrate from Redhat linux to Oracle linux. I think that quite clear by some kind of 'cold-war' going on between Redhat & Oracle. http://fossforce.com/2016/03/microsoft-oracle-oracle-tried-red-hat/ http://fossforce.com/2016/03/microsoft-oracle-oracle-tried-r...
    - chris_wot 10y ago
      The very fact that you must be an "expert" in licensing really says everything you need to know about Oracle licenses.
e2e4 10y ago
good point; although one would hope that they'd would simply provide better services on their cloud (for the same price) ...
WhiteSource1 10y ago
True but if they raise prices too much people will dumb. How many Oracle ERP users have made the move to the cloud? Very few.