- Oracle founder Larry Ellison said “it’s kind of embarrassing” for Amazon that it uses Oracle’s databases to power its own business — especially considering Amazon offers its own databases that compete with Oracle’s.
- Ellison was responding to a report from last week that Amazon intends to get off of Oracle’s products completely by 2020.
- While Amazon is a customer of Oracle’s, they are also bitter competitors, thanks to the success of Amazon Web Services.
Oracle founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison went on stage Tuesday to announce a new database feature. But it wasn’t long before Ellison did what he seems to love doing at big events: roasting Amazon.
Last week, CNBC reported that Amazon plans to end its internal reliance on Oracle technology, which underlies some parts of its business. It’s notable, because Amazon’s market-leading Amazon Web Services cloud has been attacking Oracle’s core database business for the last few years. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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