Can Oracle buy its way into the cloud? | PCWorld

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"Oracle has made pronouncements about becoming a general provider of cloud infrastructure, a field largely dominated by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure. But that's probably not where Oracle's real focus lies.

"It's all about the apps," Rymer said. "It's getting the apps into Oracle's cloud that is the object of the game."

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison has said Oracle aims to compete with Amazon. "That's not true," Rymer said. "They're competing with SAP, IBM and Salesforce.""

Can Oracle buy its way into the cloud? | PCWorld