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Oracle’s co-CEO Mark Hurd is banging the drum for the database giant’s success in cloud computing. In a TV interview Hurd is reported to have come out fighting. “Make no mistake about it, we are laser-focused on taking share, we are focused on growing,” Hurd is reported to have said. “We are focused on driving the company …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Please, please, please can we have another "Oracle" picture. The one of Uncle Larry in a badly photoshopped pile of money is getting boring.

    Isn't any form of cloud just a race to the bottom therefore nobody will ever make much on it except through scale? Therefore the market only has space for a small number of big players - which could include Oracle.

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    1. gazthejourno (Written by Reg staff)
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      You want us to CHANGE the PICTURE of LARRY ELLISON?!?

      Good gods, next they'll be asking for an area on here to write their thoughts on the articles! Someone hold me.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      As an Oracle employee, I can vouch for the veracity of the image.

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  2. Alister

    CHANGE the PICTURE of LARRY ELLISON

    We can't do that, we're still paying Oracle's licence fees for the one we've got!

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  3. HmmmYes

    Technically, he right. Solaris are very good, efficient, lightweight VM instances.

    Virtualbox, VMware etc are just bit-bashing. Sophisticated bit-bashing but still bit-bashing.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Oracle obsessed

    Im a long time avid reader of ElReg and find it interesting theres so much attention being paid to Oracle (good or bad) these days. Whats up with that?

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      Re: Oracle obsessed

      Considering how big Oracle is, it's surprising that there aren't more stories about it.

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