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cloud computing companies like amazon use oracle in their backend. http://www.itinfomag.com/cloud-computing/amazon-rds-will-inc... Andreessen is in the the board of HP , which is positioning itself to become a competitor to oracle.I would take his comments with a grain of salt.

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Actually they offer it as a service. Amazon's backend is well documented: http://www.satine.org/archives/2007/12/13/amazon-simpledb/

That's not true. Amazon offers Oracle databases as a service (as well as MS SQL Server, etc etc).

It would be interesting to see how much take up they have seen on it.

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