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0 pointseatonphil4y ago0 comments

Let's not poo poo actual competition. If Oracle _wants_ to compete with AWS that's a pretty good thing for everyone.

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Yet signing any contract with Oracle is risky, and i would rather pay more than risk dealing with Oracle itself.

but yeah, more competition is always good.

Yes, it's definitely good if it causes AWS, GCE, Azure, etc to increase allowances to compete, even if you (like me) plan to never touch that Oracle service with a ten foot pole attached to someone else's computer.

t0mas884y ago

You're not the only one. Almost everyone that did significant deals with Oracle at some point has this opinion.

swiftcoder4y ago

Plus they hired away a ton of AWS engineers to build their competitor right down the street from AWS headquarters. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

yjftsjthsd-h4y ago

People aren't dismissing the product, they're dismissing doing business with Oracle regardless of the product.

deegles4y ago

I want to compete in the Olympics, but whether that actually happens is a different question.

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