Days after the announcement of antitrust suit against Facebook, existing champions within the technology sector jump into the arena with a groundbreaking alliance.
Unprecedented industry collaboration or an overlooked antitrust risk?
What could come out of a partnership between the largest enterprise software company and the largest consumer software company?
Nitpick: at this point, Microsoft is also an enterprise software (and services) company. What software are they making for consumers? Windows exists as the client to lure enterprises into Azure; Office is a subscription that only makes back its development costs from volume subscriptions.
(You could say the operating system of the Xbox—but they’re not selling that. It’s a free complement to a consumer hardware play, just like any of Apple’s OSes are.)
This! Windows got split up internally under Nadella into Azure and Office groups.
If anything, a lot of this means they're also boosting Azure even more by doing the same thing with their enterprise database areas. This is a boon for any organizations stuck in Oracle data land that haven't gotten heavily into cloud yet or are unsure about jumping to Azure.
Now moving to Azure doesn't just mean sticking with the SQL Server landscape, and possibly also means you can get some analytical and data replication stuff tied into Azure Data Factory, CosmoDB, etc. a little more cleanly.
Amazon has a tool to migrate or duplicate from Oracle to RDS, but with Azure you can just be cloud native! (Not sure it will work that well, but could be a selling point).
A few years ago, Oracle was trying to push their cloud compute services hard, so they were offering hefty lump-sum bonuses to their sales people for selling it. As I recall it was something like $6000 extra for selling any cloud subscription, regardless of size. My fiance worked as a regional sales rep, and gamed this for three or four quarters by getting a succession of cousins and other relatives to sign up their small businesses for the minimum paid subscription, about $300, right before the end of the quarter, and then canceling it once the bonus checks cleared.
I should probably feel bad about that, but Oracle was a soulless, destructive place to work, and they didn't pay her well enough anyway, not to mention playing all kinds of games to try to claw back commissions from salespeople on their legitimate deals. It's very much an example of what happens when you put out a snake bounty.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 49.5 ms ] threadUnprecedented industry collaboration or an overlooked antitrust risk?
What could come out of a partnership between the largest enterprise software company and the largest consumer software company?
(You could say the operating system of the Xbox—but they’re not selling that. It’s a free complement to a consumer hardware play, just like any of Apple’s OSes are.)
If anything, a lot of this means they're also boosting Azure even more by doing the same thing with their enterprise database areas. This is a boon for any organizations stuck in Oracle data land that haven't gotten heavily into cloud yet or are unsure about jumping to Azure.
Now moving to Azure doesn't just mean sticking with the SQL Server landscape, and possibly also means you can get some analytical and data replication stuff tied into Azure Data Factory, CosmoDB, etc. a little more cleanly.
Amazon has a tool to migrate or duplicate from Oracle to RDS, but with Azure you can just be cloud native! (Not sure it will work that well, but could be a selling point).
A few years ago, Oracle was trying to push their cloud compute services hard, so they were offering hefty lump-sum bonuses to their sales people for selling it. As I recall it was something like $6000 extra for selling any cloud subscription, regardless of size. My fiance worked as a regional sales rep, and gamed this for three or four quarters by getting a succession of cousins and other relatives to sign up their small businesses for the minimum paid subscription, about $300, right before the end of the quarter, and then canceling it once the bonus checks cleared.
I should probably feel bad about that, but Oracle was a soulless, destructive place to work, and they didn't pay her well enough anyway, not to mention playing all kinds of games to try to claw back commissions from salespeople on their legitimate deals. It's very much an example of what happens when you put out a snake bounty.
It could be very useful for planning on systems that run across multiple cloud providers.
For example, If I could run compute nodes on DO, but leverage another cloud's SaaS offering, etc.