Larry Ellison’s reality distortion field: whatever “cloud computing” is, Oracle is already selling it…
Oracle Corp. (ORCL) Chief Executive Larry Ellison kicked off his keynote address at Oracle's annual customer conference on Sunday with comments on cloud computing and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM), rather than focusing on Oracle's strained partnership with partner Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ).
"Cloud stands in stark contrast to Salesforce.com," Ellison said, calling out several ways in which he thinks Saleforce is not an example of cloud computing. Cloud computing, he added, "is a platform upon which you build applications. It includes hardware and software."
The comments were a build-up to his announcement of a new product called Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which he referred to as a cloud in a box. "It is a hardware and software combination" that allows company to set up a private cloud.
Oracle CEO Touts Cloud Computing; Announces "Cloud In A Box" - WSJ.com
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