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Marc Andreessen: The "Clock Is Ticking" On Oracle

• pullo 15y ago
  cloud computing companies like amazon use oracle in their backend. http://www.itinfomag.com/cloud-computing/amazon-rds-will-include-oracle-database-11g/ http://www.itinfomag.com/cloud-computing/amazon-rds-will-inc... Andreessen is in the the board of HP , which is positioning itself to become a competitor to oracle.I would take his comments with a grain of salt.
  • DanielRibeiro 15y ago
    Actually they offer it as a service. Amazon's backend is well documented: http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/ http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/
  • nl 15y ago
    That's not true. Amazon offers Oracle databases as a service (as well as MS SQL Server, etc etc). It would be interesting to see how much take up they have seen on it.
• rmason 15y ago
  I view Oracle's customers as old, big and dumb. Although it personally scared me to see them acquire MySQL I thought that I understood it. I thought that they were going to use MySQL to get a new series of leads so they could target companies as they began to outgrow it. But they seemed to have failed to execute which has opened the door for a lot of companies trying to steal that market. Not just the NoSQL guys but companies like YCombinator's ReThinkDB. Right now it seems that Oracle's strategy is to buy other old line enterprise software companies whose products their current customers are using and jack up service fees. Larry Ellison is a smart guy but imho that isn't a long time sustainable strategy.