Cited on HN 5 times, 2018–2020, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Cited as a source for Ellison's comments about Amazon and Oracle, usually in threads about Amazon migrating off Oracle, and often critically.
Fox Business interview in which Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison claims Oracle will beat Amazon at cloud databases. He argues the world's valuable data lives in Oracle and says Amazon struggled to move off it.
3 citations · 2 critical · Interviews · news from the time
Off topic: I watched[1] this recently where Larry Ellison talks about Amazon.com still using Oracle DB and that when they tried to stop using Oracle they had huge problems. Anyone know to what extent Amazon.com still uses Oracle DB? I know they said they would be completely off Oracle by 2020. Is Oracle really that good for mission critical applications that no open source DB can match? [1] [this video]
Ellison claims Amazon had huge problems moving off Oracle.
There's an interview with Ellison "Oracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database" oct 2018 [this video] where he's chatting about some of his customers hating Oracle and wanting to get off, specifically Amazon and SAP. But he says they don't because the Oracle database is better and the other systems don't work properly.
Ellison claims customers hate Oracle but can't leave.
Amazon even made a promotional video when they shut down their last Oracle database [link] Perhaps it was retaliation for Larry’s comments about Amazon in this interview [this video]
Larry Ellison interview with comments about Amazon in cloud databases.
> telling him that Oracle was needed to make sure our data didn't get "corrupted" and started blaming random problems on not having Oracle; It is and it has always been Oracle and Larry Ellison to dump on others tech to promote his own.[0] Now you know why enterprise love Oracle so much. [0] [this video]
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