There was a very significant announcement from Amazon Web Services yesterday – read it here. AWS will be offering Oracle 11g as part of their Relational Database Service, which currently is restricted to MySql.
Once this is released (planned for Q2 2011), it will be the first time that you can pay for Oracle DB by the hour – up to now it’s always been a BYOL (bring your own license) model for Oracle which is OK but is a barrier to usage. Notably on the AWS website page about this announcement Oracle RAC is not mentioned anywhere though, so this is still a gap in the Enterprise market.
It’ll be interesting to see how the pricing pans out as the Oracle license will be wrapped into the hourly charge, and so that will create a strong incentive to still use the MySQL RDS service I’d have thought as it’ll be cheaper. They’re both transactional, resilient/replicated and offer bog standard SQL support – so why pay more? I guess if you’ve got a software product that depends on Oracle though and would not be officially supported otherwise, then this opens up new possibilities.
February 4, 2011 at 2:06 pm
One has to wonder what Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle Corporation) makes of AWS’s announcement on Oracle 11g in the Cloud, given his opposition only 24 months ago to all the ‘Cloud hype’. Presumably, he’s seen the light… ? See my blog here http://bit.ly/dQ2Wqv
and
Farber, D. (2008) ‘Oracle’s Ellison nails cloud computing’ CNET News. 26 September. [Online]. Available at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188-80.html [accessed 28 August 2010].
McLaughlin, K. (2008) ‘Larry Ellison Is Sick Of ‘Cloud Computing’ Hype’ CRN. 26 September. [Online]. Available at http://www.crn.com/blogs-op-ed/the-channel-wire/210604266/larry-ellison-is-sick-of-cloud-computing-hype.htm [accessed 28 August 2010].
Saor, G. (2008) ‘Why Larry hates the Cloud , and my data trinity’ Gobán Saor’s blog. 04 October. Available at http://blog.gobansaor.com/category/cloud/ [accessed 28 August 2010].
Techpulse360 (2009) Why Larry Ellison hates Cloud computing. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o [accessed 28 August 2010].
Whiting, R. (2008) ‘Oracle’s Cloud Computing Strategy Gets Clearer’ CRN. 23 September. [Online] Available at http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/210603480/oracles-cloud-computing-strategy-gets-clearer.htm [accessed 28 August 2010].