Amazon abandons the Oracle

Stefan Mileschin · 5th August 2018, 20:31

Herculean task

Online bookseller Amazon has had enough of Oracle’s database ways and says it will be off the software by 2020.

The plans come after the company moved most of its internal infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. It has been a long and involved process which started four years ago. And it is believed the outfit had wanted to move away from Oracle years before that. However, like many big outfits, it was worried that it would cost too much in terms of engineering to make the great escape.

While there are those who don’t like Oracle’s licensing model, Amazon’s main problem was that it had become too big for the Oracle software to handle and could not scale as the company became supersized.

Some parts of Amazon's core shopping business still rely on Oracle, the person said, and the full migration should wrap up in about 14 to 20 months. We expect Oracle sales teams to stop targeting Amazon.

https://fudzilla.com/news/46867-amaz...ons-the-oracle

5th August 2018, 20:31	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Amazon abandons the Oracle Herculean task Online bookseller Amazon has had enough of Oracle’s database ways and says it will be off the software by 2020. The plans come after the company moved most of its internal infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. It has been a long and involved process which started four years ago. And it is believed the outfit had wanted to move away from Oracle years before that. However, like many big outfits, it was worried that it would cost too much in terms of engineering to make the great escape. While there are those who don’t like Oracle’s licensing model, Amazon’s main problem was that it had become too big for the Oracle software to handle and could not scale as the company became supersized. Some parts of Amazon's core shopping business still rely on Oracle, the person said, and the full migration should wrap up in about 14 to 20 months. We expect Oracle sales teams to stop targeting Amazon. https://fudzilla.com/news/46867-amaz...ons-the-oracle

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