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Intel x5 ??
Oracle is throwing one stone at two birds troubling its business: cloud and falling server sales. That stone: cloud in a box. The database giant has announced Oracle Cloud at Customer, a package of its publicly available, but relatively unwanted cloud software - in its reciprocally related servers. The stone has a name: …
No. Sorry you cant handle two ways of charging for something, nor understand that cloud will inevitably be priced differently to On Prem, because its different, but just to help you out I'm sure, they arent introducing a third way, it remains the two options, On Prem or Cloud.
So PaaS is licensed on the box exactly the same as in the cloud.
Oracle is, of course, trailing Microsoft – whose Azure cloud is already offered in tin boxes from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell.
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Not as I understand it.
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/01/azure-stack-microsofts-on-premises-cloud-service-is-now-available-as-a-preview/
", the Azure Stack offers only a subset of Azure services... Its full release is planned for the fourth quarter, but even this will not have parity with the full Azure service. ......
As such, there will be plenty of things missing, such as >>>SQL databases <<< ... (my emphasis)
Not exactly cloud in a box then. AIUI the Oracle offering runs everything including database.