Although it is the summer holiday season in Europe, we don’t take a break when it comes to releasing new podcast content. This episode features one of the first VMware bloggers ever (maybe the first!?), who now is responsible for Cloud at Oracle, Richard Garsthagen. Richard introduced us to the world of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Very interesting stuff if you ask me, and with some unique capabilities compared to other public cloud offerings. (Especially from an operational point of view!) Listen now on Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3bB5QXE), Apple (https://apple.co/3SCPoa2), or anywhere else you get your podcasts! Or simply use the player below.
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Oracle feels that not many people want to run their apps in a virtual environment!
I just noticed the following article by “Oracle Storage Guy“:
Re: Need a favor – Oracle
You are not going to believe this. Some VMware folks met with Charles Phillips, the president or CEO of Oracle and he said no customers had ever mentioned to him that they wanted Oracle to support their products on VMware. Or modify the licensing scheme. He offered if anyone knew of customers who did want better or more support for Oracle on VMware, or virtualization friendly licensing, to email him directly. His email is [email protected] and he really needs to hear that customers run Oracle on VMware, and better support / licensing would be nice!
Apparently VMware provided Oracle a list of customers that wanted Oracle to support their Apps / Databases on VMware and even better change the licensing scheme to one that actually makes sense in 2009. Of course Charles Philips, Oracles President, responded that he never heard about this before. Charles apparently said that anyone who is looking for Oracle’s support or a licensing scheme based on vCPUs should drop him an email. Oracle customers can contact Charles.
Thanks Charles for taking this serious.