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.
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.



