R&D towards the cloud? Or John Mayer for OOW?
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LE totally relates to "the little people". That's exactly why he uses his jet as an analogy for autonomous, because poor people's jets aren't self-flying like his.
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I love when LE uses flying his jet as an analogy during his keynotes, as if any of us or our customers can relate
I love how they even call it cloudfest event. Oh spare me the desperation please. I hope milli vanilli was still around because that how oracle cloud-lip-sync is avout. Oracle had a market “strategy” of waiting to see where the industry is going then pull the trigger and start spending but that they seem they were late on so many fronts from cloud, BI, A.I., and common sense. I honestly don’t know how the heck Oracle still standing. When I set and talk to people in the field we all are successfully ripping oracle out of so many customers IT shops pretty easily. At this point a Chinese takeout box is better than ORacle cloud at least you get to enjoy it.
The John Mayer for OOW is more about Oracle trying to appear cool...and probably John Mayer's rates have dropped to what Oracle's margins are willing to pay for. As for the R&D? Somehow someone at Oracle believes that the "younger generation" has the authority to make million/billion dollar purchasing decisions. These younger/shiny/happy people are the key to turning around things. Oracle feels attracting the younger generation is the key to this...or...look! Lets align ourselves with SailGP! You know, everyone LOVES sailing and that is the key demographic we need to attract Oracle customers because THEY are the folks who will buy Oracle....or the startup community? You know, startups (that have a dismal success rate to actually making MONEY - UBER anyone?) where the young sailing crowd tries to re-invent the wheel..or the sail? Oracle's marketing is clueless. Oracle...stop trying to be cool and focus on fixing things that matter. Success is cool. Trying too hard is not.