ORACLE'S. CLOUD. STRATEGY.
Let's hire Thomas Kurian, bang up job on Fusion and ... oh wait, what do you mean with 'total failure'?
Oracle bought Sun, it had the keys to be the third force against AWS and MSFT - and they totally blew it. Just an amazing fumble, worse than MSFT and smartphones.
Because if so, he did a pretty good job of achieving his objective: establishing market dominance in the face of superior competing products.
Hiring Kurian is a message to investors that Google is serious[1] about trying to take over the cloud platform space, through any means necessary.
[1] At this moment, at least. Given Google's history, their actual commitment to their cloud platform remains to be seen.
Not sure how you come up with this. Is this backed with actual data?
Note that Amazon declared itself Oracle-free this year, to big fanfare. SFDC is ripping out Oracle too - their single largest DB customer.
ORA is a dead man walking, just like IBM. Zombie momentum will keep them going for a looooong time.
And that is not a surprise since Google's culture is to get rid of the human / customers interaction and wants to automate everything. But in real world all business are conducted by person.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kuri...