Oracle's Hurd mentality: We (and one other) will own all of cloud by 2025 Two companies will own 80 per cent of the software-as-a-service market by 2025 and one of them will be Oracle, the firm's co-CEO Mark Hurd has predicted. Speaking at his keynote on the second day of Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Hurd said that Oracle has spent the last five years rewriting its code base with the cloud in …
Well, from data ownership / data security PoV of company there is no tangible difference between outsourced IT on leased HW and cloud. And as companies outsource like there's no tomorrow, such externalized IT running on someone elses HW is almost a norm today.
It's like with office buildings. Nobody actually owns an office building unless he is in the rental business, physical security is usually external hired company and we can go on and on. And physical security is THE barrier. We are past that one either, for a long time and nobody in IT wonders (which is odd, 'cause when you have physical access, you effectively own it).
In this regard cloud is only a little step further. The only question is how to use it as securely and dependably as possible, with emergency procedures, redundancy, multiple vendors and hedging in place. Business as usual.
... all running in cloudy Oracle datacenters using Sparc processors? Gotta justify the R&D bucks spent on them some-which-way. Frankly I can't see that happening as much as Oracle may desire. While we've essentially solved the data at rest security question, the data in flight mostly, we've yet to nail-gun down the data under processing problem. The initiatives I've been seeing are really greenfield which really opens up the architecture to using anything other than Oracle, especially in light of their rapacious license audit teams. Sure, Open Source may not be the best fit given TCO, but there are alternatives with better support and less headaches. That's the advantage of greenfield. Just saying as most of what I've ever done had greenfield as an option and porting over databases from one dbms to another is something I've always loved doing (insane but true).
"Virtually all enterprise data will be in the cloud by 2025 was his fourth prediction"
Define "cloud". Does he mean on a separately owned piece of tin (e.g. Amazon) which the enterprise in question will trust all their data to? If so, Nope.
However, if he defines "cloud" as just being shared storage, probably software defined and virtualised within the company's boundaries, then yes, probably.
Are we supposed to be impressed ? That's a bit like a driver promising to never drive on the sidewalk.
Of course you wait for a court order, that is the normal thing to do. But if the US Gov has reason to knock on his door, it will be with a court order - or even an NSA security letter. And then you comply, citizen.
What would be impressive is if Hurd promised that regional data centers outside of the US would never hand over data to the US Government even with a court order.
Then I would take my hat off to him. As it stands ? He's just promising to do what he should be doing anyway. My hat stays on.
step 1: redefine <<latest buzz word>> to be whatever we're already doing
step 2: claim we are 100% compatible with <<latest buzz word>>
I'd be interested to know what percentage of LOC has been changed to meet this "98% redone" claim. I'm guessing it's way less than 1%, and all the rest is creative accounting.
Now that's just not true. Oracle's go-to strategy is more like:
Step 1: deny <<latest buzzword>> is a thing until half a dozen other companies have more or less sewn up the market between them.
Step 2: realise that people are making huge amounts of money in <<latest buzzword>>, and then panic that we're not involved.
Step 3: Produce shit product as quickly as possible in the hopes of catching up, without realizing that actually <<latest buzzword>> is more complex than we thought and might need more than 1980s-level DB programming knowledge.
Step 4: Try to purchase someone who knows wtf they're doing in the space.
Step 5: Panic some more, then claim victory.
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