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From the article; "So for Oracle in my opinion, the sun is still shining on premises and I do hope for them the clouds will come, but the way it is now, I’m af
by padseeker 10y ago
From the article;
"So for Oracle in my opinion, the sun is still shining on premises and I do hope for them the clouds will come, but the way it is now, I’m afraid they‘ll miss this train."
It's way beyond that. Larry Ellison didn't just miss the train, he said where the train was going was crap, and sat on sidelines for way too long. They had a chance early on but LE thought he was smarter than everyone else.
Oracle's saving grace is it's legacy business. Lots of older and bigger companies have Oracle and they can upsell those customers.
But every day a new tech company is born and none of them are adding Oracle. Baring a minor miracle it will be a slow but still profitable decline. There isn't much of a chance they will catch up, much less keep pace.
- pram 10y agoLarry Ellison said the future was in "Grid Computing" (whatever that means) which is why a lot of versions of Oracle software had a 'g' appended.