Oh my goodness, this is an awful idea. Oracle just runs hosted Exadata for OCI last I checked.<p>RAC requires shared block storage and L2 private network. Cloud SDNs and storage require gross hacks with horrible performance consequences. Even “modern” virtualization is painful, but can work.<p>Oracle isn’t going to fix all the bare-metal spaghetti assumptions in their clustered DB stack, and has been pretty clear about that.<p>This could be useful for throwaway dev/test environments. Or maybe for apps that aren’t performance intensive or critical that are in “maintenance mode” and folks want to lift-and-shift. But they’ll probably spend more time on that than fixing/replacing/retiring the app. And all will require smaller data sets than what I see with big company legacy systems.<p>And typically those systems are using Oracle to access data populated by another system, which makes me die a little inside.<p>Pretty clearly a play to get big companies into GCP contracts, more than anything real.<p>It’s to sell to execs who want to do the cool thing without paying to fix the old thing. <i>ahem</i> Thomas Kurian <i>cough</i>.