[eatonphil]

Let's not poo poo actual competition. If Oracle _wants_ to compete with AWS that's a pretty good thing for everyone.

[Xelbair]

Yet signing any contract with Oracle is risky, and i would rather pay more than risk dealing with Oracle itself.

but yeah, more competition is always good.

[kbenson]

Yes, it's definitely good if it causes AWS, GCE, Azure, etc to increase allowances to compete, even if you (like me) plan to never touch that Oracle service with a ten foot pole attached to someone else's computer.

[t0mas88]

You're not the only one. Almost everyone that did significant deals with Oracle at some point has this opinion.

[swiftcoder]

Plus they hired away a ton of AWS engineers to build their competitor right down the street from AWS headquarters. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

People aren't dismissing the product, they're dismissing doing business with Oracle regardless of the product.

[deegles]

I want to compete in the Olympics, but whether that actually happens is a different question.