[salmo]

Oh my goodness, this is an awful idea. Oracle just runs hosted Exadata for OCI last I checked.

RAC requires shared block storage and L2 private network. Cloud SDNs and storage require gross hacks with horrible performance consequences. Even “modern” virtualization is painful, but can work.

Oracle isn’t going to fix all the bare-metal spaghetti assumptions in their clustered DB stack, and has been pretty clear about that.

This could be useful for throwaway dev/test environments. Or maybe for apps that aren’t performance intensive or critical that are in “maintenance mode” and folks want to lift-and-shift. But they’ll probably spend more time on that than fixing/replacing/retiring the app. And all will require smaller data sets than what I see with big company legacy systems.

And typically those systems are using Oracle to access data populated by another system, which makes me die a little inside.

Pretty clearly a play to get big companies into GCP contracts, more than anything real.

It’s to sell to execs who want to do the cool thing without paying to fix the old thing. ahem Thomas Kurian cough.