[brazzledazzle]

I saw some holdouts but for a lot of them their tune changed when Oracle's enforcers told them how much they owed (retroactively) for running Oracle on Virtual infrastructure. You see, you don’t pay for per-processor you are actually using. You pay per-processor you could possibly use. Even with live migrations each instance could only live on two physical hosts at any one time but they had to pay for the entire VMware cluster.

You have one team trying to save the company (however fruitless it might be) by creating a cloud and being forward thinking and you have another team that’s trying to squeeze their existing customers for every drop. The former can only be hampered by the latter.

A tip for anyone running Oracle: I have a friend at a previous employer who put the screws to Oracle by running some non-prod on a massive box and just creates instances on the fly with docker containers for developers and automated testing. Of course I’d ask an attorney before doing that, YMMV.