Fake clouds: The last gasp of client-server
December 8, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.
Recently, I was pitched SAP HANA as a cloud solution. I checked out SAP’s site, and sure enough, there was a mutitenanted cloud version of SAP HANA — a free one for developers, that is. For any serious work, you needed a "dedicated instance" at $539 per month for the Starter edition. The Standard edition costs $3,932 per month.
Oracle, which you’ve heard a million times by now is all-in with the cloud, provides another example. To get Oracle Database as a Service, the price per OCPU (Oracle Compute Unit) per month starts at $600 for the Standard Edition and climbs all the way to $5,000 for the Extreme Performance Enterprise Edition. Click the Buy Now button and up pops an 800 sales number for you to call…
Did I mention that to get even that far, you need to register for an Oracle account? The cloud is all about self-service. You go to Salesforce or Amazon Web Services, enter a credit card number, and start working. You may or may not want to develop a lasting relationship with that cloud provider. You pay for what you use and are free to turn off the spigot at any time…
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