Oracle charts a different path for cloud data services
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Summary:
Drilling down on Oracle s announcement of 21c and the APEX cloud service against the backdrop of how the company s broader DB strategy differs from that of cloud competitors.
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AWS is the big kahuna in cloud computing, so it s bound to attract the most fire from competitors trying to stand out from the crowd, however, the animosity between Oracle and AWS isn t merely the typical sniping between rivals. I won t recount the litany of executive barbs and even legal filings the two sides have exchanged, and given the alpha male personalities involved it s hard to say how much is bravado and how much plain animosity.