From: wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au   
      
   On 13/11/2017 8:42 @wiz, Mladen Gogala wrote:   
      
   > Beware of Oracle bearing gifts. The possibility of disengaging the cloud   
   > and migrating the stuff back to the premises must be negotiated in the   
   > contract. Oracle's business practices are, er...unusual, to put it   
   > mildly. Fortunately, competition will eventually take care of that. Both   
   > AWS and Azure have wiped the floor with Oracle cloud offerings. Such   
   > cautinary tales should motivate people to look at the other cloud   
   > providers first.   
      
   I know. We gave up on their entire cloud nonsense, particularly the IaaS   
   and SaaS offers.  Their costing model is the usual shambles (even worse   
   than their licensing rip-off) and if they think they can compete with   
   Azure, Google and other providers, they are soooo dreaming...   
      
      
   > However, this will still not help the DBA guys whose   
   > jobs are bleeding away to cloud vendors, application vendors and   
   > outsourcing remote DBA companies. Here is the one for the last Oracle DBA:   
   >   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOd3tan59BE   
      
   Yeah, I wish I had a $ for every time I've heard a jingle or ad about   
   the "last dba" in the last 25 years.  Still around, still laughing at   
   all those.  But of course, it's just me and I can't see reality...   
   It's all just luck, what can I say?...   
   )   
      
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