In this brief video highlight from the Acceleration Economy course The Cloud Wars Top 10: How It Works, Why It Has Shifted, & How CXOs Use It, Bob Evans emphasizes the accelerating growth rate of Oracle in comparison to bigger Cloud Wars Top 10 companies.
This episode is sponsored by Acceleration Economy’s “Cloud Wars Top 10 Course,” which explains how Bob Evans builds and updates the Cloud Wars Top 10 ranking, as well as how C-suite executives use the list to inform strategic cloud purchase decisions. The course is available today.
Highlights
00:17 — Although Oracle’s base is smaller, Oracle’s growth rate is accelerating while its bigger competitors’ growth rates are moderating.
00:43 — Oracle’s Larry Ellison has described how the company started in the cloud infrastructure doing the same thing as the big three providers — Microsoft, Google Cloud, and AWS. However, Ellison decided that “if we’re going to do this, we’re going to do it by being different,” taking the company in a different direction to deliver value.
01:05 — The company has used new technology, new ideas, and new approaches. Additionally, Oracle has built an infrastructure business over $5 billion.
01:33 — The growth rate of Oracle has accelerated because customers are turning to a provider that runs the fastest and costs the least.
