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Our blocker in using GCP is that they do not offer a managed Oracle Database. AWS does with RDS. We hate Oracle like the next person, but we're locked in. And
by crankylinuxuser 8y ago
Our blocker in using GCP is that they do not offer a managed Oracle Database. AWS does with RDS.
We hate Oracle like the next person, but we're locked in. And there's no way we're going to the "Oracle Cloud"
- dijit 8y agoWhat about running oracle on a google instance with a regional disk? Sure, it's not as sexy as a managed service but functionally it would be very similar.
- ticmasta 8y agoNot only is it not sexy, it's probably the most work. You're now administering the server, storage & the database; you're the DBA for your Oracle instance and databases; Oracle loves to hammer this scenario for licensing (they'd rather you pay for their "cloud") and paying a premium for the underlying hardware that needs to managed remotely. I can understand why this is a no-go for the GP.
- dijit 8y agoYeah, I understand it too; We're currently being squeezed by MS licensing in GCP (but it's basically free in Azure!). This is the cost of lock-in. Personally I'd rather have the expertise on staff than pay oracle (and microsoft) for this shitty behaviour.
- manigandham 8y agoThat's more on Oracle than Google, and probably unlikely to ever happen at this point. They've already increased licensing costs to make it more expensive to run in other clouds.
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoYou know, that's kind of weird. You'd think they'd be really worried about the general trend and would be introducing smaller, cheaper versions of cloud Oracle. Are they just that convinced that people will stick with Oracle? I wonder what makes them think that. I'm not familiar enough with Oracle to take a guess.