Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Bashes 'Cloud Computing' Hype

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison mocks the "cloud computing" hype that has smitten the "nitwits on Sand Hill Road." "It's not water vapor," he says, "it is a computer attached to a network."

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[Stephen Feltmate]

Salesforce runs on Oracle technology - they're one of Oracle's biggest customers. I think what upsets Ellison the most is that it competes head to head with Oracle's offerings and is winning; that has got to dig at him (clearly it does). He was wrong about cloud computing. Yes it runs on hardware but if someone buys your hardware/software and then delivers their own software on it thus eliminating the need for your products then you lose on that deal. It's about service delivery.

[Malocosa]

I remember back the 90s when Larry was espousing his "network computer". It was the idea of having a lightweight laptop that ran software from a remote location. Jump forward to now and we basically have that with the continuously evolving tablets and smartphones. Methinks Larry's pissed because Oracle never executed on that vision and became dominant player.

[Nathaniel Deverell]

Cloud is a name ignorant doosh bag no nothings for internet network

[Nathaniel Deverell]

Larry is 100% correct!!!!

[Chow Ming]

thank

[Flight Condor]

Larry Ellison is right. There are too many clowns who claim that cloud computing signifies the "end of the PC era" but conveniently ignore that it's PCs, including web servers, database servers, applications servers running at the back end which power the so-called "cloud."

[Sarah Johnson]

G58, I know your post is old, but most "cloud" applications run with Oracle technology, not sure what you mean by Larry missing out on the "cloud" when Oracle is the engine behind most of it.

[KNP192]

Cloud computing is just a fancy buzzword for what we've had for years. Nothing special-

[msbrando]

Well, i can't paste the link for the interview with Charlie Rose, but you google it.

[msbrando]

Please, Larry Ellison started "cloud computing" in the end of the 90s. I just work in a company that the entire "ERP" was online, in the Oracle data center.

Just check this video with Charlie Rose in 1998 or around:

This is just BS about "cloud computing" like if they have invented something super new.