Author: Rosalie Chan / Source: Business Insider
- At its earnings call on Monday, Oracle cofounder, chief technology officer, and executive chairman Larry Ellison said there’s “no way” anyone would move from an Oracle database to an Amazon database.
- Amazon is trying to move off of Oracle databases, making some key progress this year when it switched off its largest Oracle data warehouse.
- Still, for a company so focused on moving off of Oracle’s database, it’s taking a long time, Ellison said.
After Oracle reported its earnings Monday, Oracle founder Larry Ellison said on a call with analysts that he has no doubt that Oracle will stay dominant in the database market — and that Amazon Web Services, its foremost rival, is just “making all the noise.”
“There’s no way anyone would move from an Oracle database to an Amazon database,” Ellison said during the earnings call. “It’s too expensive.”
Amazon itself is having trouble doing this, Ellison said. CNBC previously reported that Amazon has plans to completely move off Oracle’s databases by 2020.
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