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by AndrewKemendo 2244 days ago
A lot of "they must be crazy" in this thread and I admit I had the same reaction seeing the headline.

However there are some options here other than "Zoom management is incompetent."

1. As others have pointed out, Amazon Google Msft all have competitive products and Zoom doesn't want to give them any more insight than they already have.

2. Oracle finally has a set of cloud products that are on par with AWS, GCP or Azure from a cost, availability, license perspective

3. They got a great deal to help Oracle change the way they do business so they can become competitive in Cloud

I don't know if any of these are true or not, but none are implausible imo
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amalter 2244 days ago
Additionally - I don't know if Zoom's backend is Java, but if it is - Oracle has a sweet deal on getting the Enterprise version of Graal for free if you run on Oracle Cloud.

I think this could be a smart move for a company to be the "big fish in a small pond" - even if that pond is owned by a shark with freaking laser beams....

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