Intel and Oracle push into big data, label IBM and SAP cloud clowns

Larry Ellison has dismissed his two historic competitors, IBM and SAP as "nowhere in the cloud," and used Sunday night's OpenWorld keynote to show off products and services designed to bury Big Blue and the HANA heroes. "We compete with Amazon in cloud infrastructure and never, ever see IBM - this is how much our world has …

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Methinks thou dost protest too much"

""We compete with Amazon in cloud infrastructure"

Just LOL. Amazon probably can just about see them in the distance with a very powerful telescope in front of their rear view mirror....

"and only Oracle and Microsoft is in every level of the cloud "

Well no - Microsoft have an out of the box hybrid cloud solution, and Oracle don't. And Microsoft are well ahead of even Amazon in cloud revenue, whereas Oracle are not even on the RADAR.

"Krzanich claimed the new hardware will enable 6TB in-memory databases "

But you can do that on SQL Server / commodity Wintel already - e.g. HP Proliant DL580 G9.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Methinks thou dost protest too much"

Oracle last FY statement : "GAAP Cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues were up 23% to $1.1 billion while Cloud IaaS revenues were $456 million."

If your RADAR can't spot $1.5 billion of revenue, perhaps it needs updating.

[returnofthemus]

"Methinks thou dost protest too much"

Instead of taking care of business, it's obvious he's spent far too much time Cloud sailing on his Cloud boat and developed an incurable type of motion sickness (https://youtu.be/KmXJSeMaoTY?t=1m15s)

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Everybody loves Larry

Blah blah CLOUD blah CLOUD blah CLOUD CLOUD CLOUD ...

2 points, though:

1. SAP could well profit from the 'safe harbour' Charlie Foxtrot

2. never ever underestimate IBM, they could teach the BOSH some new tricks, and then some

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