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Oracle Cloud is apparently not that bad, but it has no mindshare. They hire from Oracle because Oracle is really, really good at selling to the 'enterprise' i.

Oracle Cloud is apparently not that bad, but it has no mindshare. They hire from Oracle because Oracle is really, really good at selling to the 'enterprise' i.e. the sorts of non-tech firms where non-tech executives make tech spending decisions. They often expect to be lavished with attention and sometimes perks (see Jackson Hole discussions above) in order to agree to a platform buy. Oracle's skill at selling into that environment is pretty legendary.

zxcmx 7y ago
I tried spinning up some free Oracle cloud instances (you get 2!) but it was "out of capacity" (at least in that instance shape?) in sydney region... not an experience I've had with any other cloud provider. Perhaps they are too popular? /s
- thu2111 7y ago
  In Sydney!? Quite possibly. Australia is pretty small, I'm surprised they have a datacenter there at all tbh.
  - zxcmx 7y ago
    I guess so were they because they didn't put any computers in it.