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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss Oracle’s rise to number three on the Cloud Wars Top 10, which reflects its innovative edge and strategic partnerships.
Highlights
00:23 — Due to its remarkable recent performance, I’ve moved Oracle up on the Cloud Wars Top 10 from number four to number three. And as a consequence, AWS moves down from the number three spot to number four.
01:10 — I’m perfectly aware that AWS’ revenue is five times that of Oracle Cloud. But there are other factors including customer-centric vision. We see that in what Oracle has done in its recent partnerships for multi-cloud services with Microsoft and Google Cloud. We’ve seen it in its range of deployment options. It is evolving its technology where customers want it and need it. That is a big differentiator.
02:06 — Look at what Oracle is doing with its Alloy program, where it’s helping some customers become tech cloud providers, whether for regulatory or regional reasons. There’s market momentum. In its most recent quarter, its remaining performance obligation rose 44% to $98 billion.
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03:17 — The new order of the first five companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 is: One, Microsoft; two, Google Cloud; three, Oracle; four, AWS; five, SAP. Three of the top five are what some people used to call legacy companies: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP. It wasn’t so long ago that some of these so-called experts were saying, “Oh, these companies don’t get the cloud. They won’t make it. They can’t manage it.”
04:17 — Audacity counts for something. A few years ago, Larry Ellison said, “We’re going to go right up against three of the biggest, most well-entrenched, wealthiest, and most influential corporations in the world: Microsoft, Amazon, Google. We’re going to take them on in cloud infrastructure.” And they’ve done that very successfully by doing things differently.
05:47 — I’ll have a longer article today that goes into great detail about this. We’ve got comments in there from Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Oracle executive vice president Jason Maynard, and a video interview with Maynard as well.
