An Oracle cloud executive said the tech giant’s enormous customer base gives it a huge edge in the long-term battle with Amazon.
, announced in June, will turn the one-time bitter rivals into stronger competitors against Amazon Web Services, their common cloud foe.
The alliance allows businesses to seamlessly set up and run their networks on both Microsoft Azure or Oracle's cloud infrastructure. This makes it easier for clients to pick and choose different offerings from both companies. Magouryk left Amazon to join Oracle in 2014. He has grown critical of Amazon's strategy, and he thinks Oracle, which remains a major provider of enterprise software and database systems, has a huge advantage in what he sees as a long game in the cloud: its huge customer base.
Magouryk says that he and Johnson didn't come to Oracle with the intention of copying their former employer's business model, but rather, to explore a more modern way of thinking about cloud computing.Amazon's rapid rise to success in the cloud has largely been attributed to its ability,, to attract startups and small and medium sized businesses who did not have existing servers or data centers to worry about.
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