Where Is Oracle Headed in the Cloud?

Grazed from CloudComputingExpo. Author: Harry Trott.

Oracle has sounded extremely optimistic about their future; one that is going to be dominated by the cloud. The company has reported cloud revenue growth of anywhere between 35% and 50% over the past few quarterly financial reports. Safra Catz, the Chief Financial Officer at Oracle is noted to have said that her company is focused at increasing market share on the cloud at this point “unlike all those cloud companies” like SalesForce that are focusing on profits.

So is the company seeing a paradigm shift in their revenue pie? Not really. Despite the buzz about Oracle’s focus being on the cloud, this segment only contributes to 3% of the overall revenues at the moment. According to a report by Cowen analyst Peter Goldmacher, the organic cloud growth at Oracle in the second quarter is not expected to have been more than 6%…

What this implies, is that a huge contribution to the Oracle cloud revenues come from its acquisitions over the past few years. It cost Oracle close to $5.5 billion to acquire RightNow, Taleo, Eloqua and Responsys. These businesses, according to Goldmacher, are now growing in single digits which means that by the same time next year, Oracle might not really be in a position to tout its massive cloud growth numbers. Unless they make another big ticket acquisition, that is…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/node/2961679

Subscribe to the CloudCow bi-monthly newsletter @ http://eepurl.com/smZeb