Cloud Computing: Oracle’s rising open source problem

June 12, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Matt Asay.

Life used to be so simple for Oracle. Back in the good ol’ days, the company could build a great database, charge a king’s ransom for it, and milk the maintenance stream forever. Rinse. Repeat. Unfortunately, this model no longer works, as a series of earnings misses over the last few years have shown.

While a number of factors are at play in Oracle’s stumbles, one of the most persistent is the rise of open-source databases, both relational and non-relational (NoSQL), as a recent Bloomberg article posits. As Powa Technologies CEO says, "They scale and operate extremely well, and they don’t cost anything."…

This sounds like a recipe for yet another Oracle earnings miss. But it may not bode well for the open-source database companies, either…

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