Oracle came late to cloud computing, joining the fray only after competitors like Microsoft and Salesforce had established dominant positions, and newcomer Amazon Web Services leaped from a standing start to a position of dominance. Amazon is so strong in the cloud that it is on the cusp of extinguishing the last challenges to its win of the 10-year $10 billion Pentagon JEDI procurement. At least that’s what a cursory look at the data shows. Certainly, the news isn’t great for Oracle, but it doesn’t paint the full picture.
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Autonomous Linux and the IT Utility
Posted by: Denis Pombriant October 12, 2019 03:51 AMOracle came late to cloud computing, joining the fray only after competitors like Microsoft and Salesforce had established dominant positions, and newcomer Amazon Web Services leaped from a standing start to a position of dominance. Amazon is so strong in the cloud that it is on the cusp of extinguishing the last challenges to its win of the 10-year $10 billion Pentagon JEDI procurement. At least that’s what a cursory look at the data shows. Certainly, the news isn’t great for Oracle, but it doesn’t paint the full picture.