Oracle takes aim at AWS with cheap, fast public and hybrid cloud

Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle's OpenWorld event in San Francisco on Sunday with news of a second-generation infrastructure-as-a-service offering. The IT giant's supremo claimed the IaaS out-performs Amazon Web Services (AWS), undercuts it on price and will also be sold as on-premises kit tied to a subscription. Ellison told …

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Oracle

Cheap for now. does anyone still trust these crooks?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oracle

NO!

[Robert Moore]

Re: Oracle

There is not enough NO in the world, to adequately answer your question.

[TheVogon]

Re: Oracle

It's worth looking at what AWS offer vs Oracle if they want to compare costs, see http://cloud-computing.softwareinsider.com/compare/5-248/Amazon-Inc-vs-Oracle-Corporation

[Pascal Monett]

"complained about his salary"

I don't care if it was in jest or not, from a person with his wealth that's just petty.

[Captain TickTock]

Re: "complained about his salary"

Yeah, it's a bit rich...

[Stoney Broke]

Re: "complained about his salary"

Yes, very rich.

What's a pay rise Larry? Is that something that workers in other companies get?

"Work hard, play hard, be *grateful* you have a job at *wonderful* Oracle"

... does that come across as sarcastic?

[LHGFLICOD]

$175 a month Exadata Cloud service

175 dollars gets you a single 5GB schema in a multi tenant database.

An exadata quarter rack is 40-80k per month.