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The only thing that this "article written about a tweet" made me think was why has it taken Amazon so long?

Oracle sued my company a few years back for license compliance issues - I vowed never to run their stuff again and rip it out wherever I find it.

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> why has it taken Amazon so long?

I imagine at the scale of Amazon replacing some of the core data stores with all their existing data is a quite complex task. Just think about the amount of data you need to migrate and keep in sync during the migration and all the third party tools using such data. So while it takes long, I don't think Amazon is particularly slow doing it.

Amuzingly AWS started as an effort to restructure their own internal infrastructure, and when they saw how useful it was they decided it could be sold to other people as well. Replacing Oracle is almost the exact opposite direction.

What’s wrong with an “article written about a tweet”, when the tweet is from someone — the CEO of AWS — with the highest authority on the matter?

Maybe if the AWS CEO had denied Bloomberg's backdoor story in a tweet, instead of the AWS chief information security officer in a blog, Bloomberg would have retracted it by now?

Disclaimer: Work at AWS.

He has?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/aws-ceo-jassy-follows-apple-...

I bet Amazon uses Oracle back-office software like PeopleSoft , some Oracle ERP and/or BI Tools(Hyperion). Oracle has a stronghold on these type of systems and they only play nice with other Oracle products.

Similar experience with IBM and RedHat. (And go figure - they merged!)

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