Cloud Computing: Oracle Calls Out Amazon, Salesforce

February 3, 2014 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from CRMBuyer. Author: Richard Adhikari.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said last week that his main rivals were the new generation of cloud companies, and that IBM and SAP were no longer in his gun sights. Oracle is focusing on cloud infrastructure companies such as Amazon and SaaS providers such as former ally Salesforce.com, Ellison told attendees at CloudWorld in San Francisco.

"Oracle may have some big ambitions, but if it thinks it’s going to severely dent this IaaS/PaaS market share picture any time soon, it’s kidding itself," John Dinsdale, chief analyst at the Synergy Research Group, told CRM Buyer. "IBM, Microsoft and Google are all pushing very hard and aggressively growing their IaaS/PaaS revenues, but [Amazon Web Services] remains in a league of its own," he continued…

Larry’s Vaulting Ambition

While Ellison repeatedly had dismissed the cloud in the past, he sang a slightly different tune at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, describing it in Amazon’s terms — as a hardware and software platform…

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