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Worth noting (from the article): > Zoom already uses Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services, but went with Oracle for its latest expansion. Remember that Oracl
by signal11 7y ago
Worth noting (from the article):
> Zoom already uses Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services, but went with Oracle for its latest expansion.
Remember that Oracle’s Capex spending on cloud is very small compared to AWS, Azure and GCP. Given Zoom’s growth it’s not likely they’ll choose an also-ran in the public cloud market as their sole supplier.
Increasing optionality and maybe some access to Oracle marketing is likely a bigger reason.
- johannes1234321 7y ago> Increasing optionality and maybe some access to Oracle marketing is likely a bigger reason. Yup, Larry Ellison himself recently endorsed Zoom, most likely as means to close the deal: https://youtu.be/u96GRtxBUUQ https://youtu.be/u96GRtxBUUQ Now they are in the news with this story ... that's valuable.