Oracle CEO: A week from the launch of a large cloud service

The May 31 news, according to the Wall Street Journal, Oracle CEO Ellison (Larry http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16528.html ">ellison") said in Wednesday, The company will launch a large cloud-based application service in about a week.

"We will launch our cloud application services on June 6," Mr. Ellison said at the D10 conference. He also said he would probably post his own first Twitter message as a souvenir.

Oracle was created by Ellison in 1977 and has been the dominant force in traditional business software, including databases and applications. The company also increased its hardware business by acquiring Sun Microsystems Inc. The company is now called Cloud computing, prompting a large number of young rivals to opt to use the Internet to deliver software as a service.

Oracle is sometimes referred to as slow to respond to cloud computing, but Ellison says he saw the potential of such products as early as the middle of the 1990, NetSuite Inc. is an early example. He remains the NetSuite's largest shareholder, holding about 45% per cent of the latter. "Investing in NetSuite is my idea. "said Ellison. He also claims that another company, Salesforce.com, was founded after its CEO, Marc Benioff, "copied" the NetSuite model.

Mr. Ellison points out that Oracle's new cloud service is built on a radically different design from those adopted by companies such as Salesforce.com. The model is named "Multiple Hire" (multitenancy), which combines the services of several companies on the same server.

One disadvantage of multiple leases is that when a vendor wants to upgrade the underlying software, the customer must upgrade to upgrade and not be able to control their upgrade time, Mr. Ellison said. And Oracle's model provides each client with a virtual machine that allows them to decide when to upgrade themselves. "Our cloud service version is much more modern than any other product. "said Ellison.

He also said in an interview that he would continue to operate Oracle's engineering work, because he would not know what to do if he retired. He admits that the main factor driving him to continue his work is his desire for competition. As in previous public appearances, Mr. Ellison mocked rivals such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, especially former Hewlett-Packard CEO D10 (Leo Apotheker), at the conference.

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