I currently work as a solutions engineer on Oracle Cloud. The product is absolute garbage and I'm miserable. If anyone has any good leads on other positions please let me know!
It's sad that these politics might win because the Oracle cloud is one of the worst products I've ever used, especially from such a massive company that could easily put out something better if it wasn't the epitome of misery in customer relations led by clueless management.
There was a time when Oracle's database product was kind of like IBM mainframes. If you could afford it, and really needed its capabilities, there was no substitute.<p>As a result, their sales and business practices focus on selling huge deployments to Big Enterprise and large government contracts.<p>Not surprising they never really made inroads with small developers and startups, and why they have the reputation they do in that community.
So they go anti-the-other-guy instead of making sure they have the better deal? That sounds like about half the stuff you get with politics and lawyers. I thought you'd get something more factual with technology, but I guess Oracle is more like a lawyer-lobby business that just happens to make or resell software.
I don't get all of the Amazon fan-boi-ism. They are just another company. They are all trying to get more of the publics money through influence. You think Amazon hasn't been lobbying agencies and congress to get their business? Why do you think that Bezos bought the Washington Post?<p>Oracle is quite bad. Procurement in the Government is broken. The DOD is the worst. It's literally a give away to the private sector. If you think that someone "wins" this kind of business because their "product" "is the best"...You are going to be very sad.
I think it's a terrible idea for the DoD (of all departments) to move all their infrastructure to any commercial cloud, Amazon or Oracle. So much critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company. What could possibly go wrong? They get hacked, experience significant outages, or worse, go out of business, and <i>poof</i> there goes all of the DoD's infrastructure... Whoever wins the bid will definitely become "too big to fail".
Cheap, but let’s all enjoy Larry Ellison on “the cloud”<p><a href="https://youtu.be/KmXJSeMaoTY" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/KmXJSeMaoTY</a>
Worth considering the anti-amazon lobby's position (I really would not want Oracle to get a single slice of the pie though).<p>Is there a good reason for this contract to a single cloud service provider?<p>AWS already runs the CIA's private cloud.
Amazon is definitely the current leader but in order to to make it a monopoly, competetion in cloud should be encouraged that will improve offereing and bring prices down for majority of the users.
I'm calling it now. Oracle will succeed and be the primary benefactor of these efforts. We've already seen that they're in bed with Trump: <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-silicon-valley-giant-bankrolling-devin-nunes" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-silicon-valley-giant-bankr...</a>. The only things Trump understands are money and favors.
Oracle, I have a proposition for you. Why don't you release Java and then curl up and die? There is not a reason for you to exist. Your mojo was 20 years ago, why prolong the agony. Save us all trouble and go home.
About the only good thing that could come from this is destroying the ability for the DoD to move anything to the cloud. Huge SaaS and IaaS companies are squids wrapping their tentacles around everyone's data and sucking the autonomy out of organizations.<p>An upstream connectivity outage should be nothing more than an inconvenience, not your lifeline to your lifeline to your only provider of your digital business process and records.