Oracle has been the loudest of legacy business technology providers when it comes to attacking the head of the new guard in recent years, and Amazon Web Services has certainly noticed.
The information released Tuesday that AWS and Salesforce are working on ways to use open source database technology to replace the Oracle database software that has been running on the servers of both companies for a long time, from Oracle used was one of a limited set of options for building a web-scale cloud computing business at the end of the last century. This is not a surprising development, given the animosity between the two pioneers of the cloud and Oracle and the trend towards open source infrastructure projects in general, but Oracle investors worried about losing two cash cows have sent the shares of the company nearly two percent report.
However, some story details reveal how Oracle's cheeky style and the history of notorious sales tactics have sparked a competitive fire under the AWS and Salesforce database teams. Apparently, RedShift has been deliberately named as a nod to Oracle's red mark, and Salesforce has called for its efforts to move to a new "Sayonara" database, according to anonymous sources cited by The Information.
AWS and Oracle have spent a good part of 2017 exchanging photos of database performance, cost, reliability, and everything they could imagine to get under the skin. 'other. This is partly because databases are one of the last major battlegrounds in the conflict between the use of local software and cloud computing software; Databases are very, very difficult to transfer to the cloud, especially if they have existed for a long time. This gave Oracle time to move its customers to its own cloud databases, but AWS executives repeatedly said last year that they saw many Oracle customers. They are looking for a new route.
According to the report, AWS has considered moving away from Oracle since December 2004, when a database-related interruption caused Amazon.com to fall for an extended period. In fact, it's a good reminder of the difficulty of migrating legacy applications to cloud services; If you need one of the most advanced technology infrastructure providers for over a decade (Salesforce plans to complete its migration by 2023), you're starting to understand why technology customers are better corporate without this level of experience choose remains immobile. ....
