Hardware, software, consulting, research
That is so wrong. Kyndryl is (was) just infrastructure maintenance and consulting. Business services (IBM Consulting) is that ~5B/quarter thing while Kyndryl keeps sinking.
>Linux + Exim + Spamassassin + greylistd + Dovecot + Sieve is all it takes Obligatory reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Another point re $$$'s. Predictable, low pricing is actually a key Oracle cloud selling point. Following the recent wins with Zoom and 8x8 we've put up a comparison sheet [1] and a workload estimator [2]. Then there's…
Er, I'd argue that aiming for safety and/or following the crowd aren't really the ingredients of a sound decision making process. On that basis no challenger would ever stand a chance.
Point taken. Every time Oracle is mentioned it's in the context of horror licensing stories. I get that - but would it make a difference if I said OCI is actually different? Take this with as much salt as you want but…
Care to support that comment please? Mind you, talking about cloud platforms here not parent companies. Not a salespitch, but Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is built with pretty serious enterprise-grade security in…
I think that's unfair (I may be biased as I work at Oracle) but many people would argue Oracle is well in the top 5 (if you look at global infrastructure and platform, and discount SaaS-only and/or regional vendors).…
That's not fair, this is about OCI not the larger Oracle. It's like bashing Azure for what Microsoft has done in the past (funny how we're not hearing much about that anymore). OCI is cheaper than AWS on pretty much…
Read the article in his profile, you'll find your answer in 10 secs. And yeah, with that profile, in that location, I take his point. But not everybody is that lucky :)
Hardware, software, consulting, research
That is so wrong. Kyndryl is (was) just infrastructure maintenance and consulting. Business services (IBM Consulting) is that ~5B/quarter thing while Kyndryl keeps sinking.
>Linux + Exim + Spamassassin + greylistd + Dovecot + Sieve is all it takes Obligatory reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Another point re $$$'s. Predictable, low pricing is actually a key Oracle cloud selling point. Following the recent wins with Zoom and 8x8 we've put up a comparison sheet [1] and a workload estimator [2]. Then there's…
Er, I'd argue that aiming for safety and/or following the crowd aren't really the ingredients of a sound decision making process. On that basis no challenger would ever stand a chance.
Point taken. Every time Oracle is mentioned it's in the context of horror licensing stories. I get that - but would it make a difference if I said OCI is actually different? Take this with as much salt as you want but…
Care to support that comment please? Mind you, talking about cloud platforms here not parent companies. Not a salespitch, but Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is built with pretty serious enterprise-grade security in…
I think that's unfair (I may be biased as I work at Oracle) but many people would argue Oracle is well in the top 5 (if you look at global infrastructure and platform, and discount SaaS-only and/or regional vendors).…
That's not fair, this is about OCI not the larger Oracle. It's like bashing Azure for what Microsoft has done in the past (funny how we're not hearing much about that anymore). OCI is cheaper than AWS on pretty much…
Read the article in his profile, you'll find your answer in 10 secs. And yeah, with that profile, in that location, I take his point. But not everybody is that lucky :)