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Oracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database: Larry Ellison

Fox Business · 398K views · 2018-10-27 · 8:47

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Fox Business interview in which Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison claims Oracle will beat Amazon at cloud databases. He argues the world's valuable data lives in Oracle and says Amazon struggled to move off it.

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Cited as a source for Ellison's comments about Amazon and Oracle, usually in threads about Amazon migrating off Oracle, and often critically.

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aserafini · 2020-05 · Reference

Amazon even made a promotional video when they shut down their last Oracle database [LINK] Perhaps it was retaliation for Larry’s comments about Amazon in this interview [VIDEO]

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jpalomaki · 2019-10 · Criticism

This is kind of reply to Larry Ellison's comments [1] about how Amazon can't run their business on their own databases. [1] [VIDEO]

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tim333 · 2019-03 · Reference

There's an interview with Ellison "Oracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database" oct 2018 [VIDEO] where he's chatting about some of his customers hating Oracle and wanting to get off, specifically Amazon and SAP. But he says they don't because the Oracle database is better and the other systems don't work properly.

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