Oracle has exhibition booths at most web hosting events in Europe. They get very little traffic. Am skeptical they can be a player.
- R. ________________________________ From: NANOG <[email protected]> on behalf of Jason Hellenthal <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 6:27 PM To: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: Oracle buys... Dyn. Lets just hope so, or Id think that the there will eventually be a price hike by AWS to compensate for Oracle's outrageous costs. But again only speculation at this point. > On Nov 21, 2016, at 11:22, Akshay Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Route53 just uses Dyn and Ultra. I would expect AWS to roll out their own > soon. > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:18 PM, J. Hellenthal <[email protected]> > wrote: > Don't blame ya I'm a little negative on this one too as I can already > "assume" specialized DNS integration with oracle products among possibly > ?oracle cloud? Structures spawning up for competition with AWS, Azure ... > others but these are just speculations. > > -- > Onward!, > Jason Hellenthal, > Systems & Network Admin, > Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, > JJH48-ARIN > > On Nov 21, 2016, at 10:26, Jay R. Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Happy Monday. > > This seems to me to be equivalent (and bad for the same reasons) to cable > companies and/or ISPs being co-owned with program providers. > > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-amazons-lead-in-the-cloud [http://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/11/21/28ab95ae-b687-4f4b-8caf-03c9062595ad/thumbnail/770x578/f50013e5a44bbde27721ff1b4d6e562f/screen-shot-2016-11-21-at-13-26-57.jpg]<http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-amazons-lead-in-the-cloud> Oracle acquires DNS powerhouse Dyn to take on leading cloud players | ZDNet<http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-amazons-lead-in-the-cloud> www.zdnet.com Oracle is a strong player in the datacenter realm, but with this deal, perhaps Larry Ellison's cloud dreams are coming closer. > > How will this affect *your* operations planning, if at all? Am I being > overly cynical about Larry Ellison? :-) > > Cheers, > -- jra > > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > [email protected] > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274 > -- Jason Hellenthal JJH48-ARIN
