It seems every time I’m in an account and finish talking about VMware’s cloud strategy and ecosystem Oracle comes up as a discussion point. Customers ask why Oracle seems to be going in the complete opposite direction of their strategic directions and cloud in general. I don’t have a good answer for that one other than to agree with them. Take the announcement from earlier last week that Oracle is killing off Virtual Iron shortly after the acquisition. It’s yet another virtualization technology they bought and have subsequently killed (SUN xVM being the other). This is just one of the many reasons customers are seeing SUN running against their strategic directions (virtualization is somewhat crucial to getting the cloud going). You add in Oracle’s licensing practices and disjointed vision and you can see the puzzle pieces falling into place. Meanwhile you have people like VMware, Intel, Cisco, and EMC (VICE) all aligning with customers’ strategic vision and taking them on the path to better days.
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Jun 01
OK. So maybe you have to be in sales to really understand the humor in this one. Still, in this economy this is only getting worse. Enjoy the humor post and I promise to start blogging more about cloud soon. I just got back from 18 days in EMEA talking to a lot of our hosting partners that are now getting into the cloud game. Exciting times!
