"Ellison paid lip service to the value of cloud computing's utility model, which lets IT execs buy computing power just like they buy electrical power, but the

"Ellison paid lip service to the value of cloud computing's utility model, which lets IT execs buy computing power just like they buy electrical power, but the Oracle Private Cloud is more like paying the electric company to put a power plant in your office building." I think this shows a gross misunderstanding in tech media's idea of the "cloud". The idea of the private cloud is setting up your own distributed cluster with shared memory easily. They make it sound like Oracle's private cloud is self-defeating and complicated with the power plant analogy. Maybe some companies can't store their private data in "the cloud", but would like the flexibility of adding nodes to their own private "cloud" as easily as they could with Amazon cloud for example.