back to article Oracle's new cloud rated 'minimum viable product' ... for now

Oracle's gone in hard on cloud this week, promising a stellar, cheap cloud that has already erased Amazon Web Services' lead. But Gartner analyst Lydia Leong begs to differ. She's squeezed out a quick assessment of Big Red's latest cloud and says: “I would characterize this early offering as minimum viable product; it is the …

  1. FIA Silver badge

    ...I could dance with the devil in the pale moonlight

    The longer I spend in IT, the less purchasing decisions seem to be made on the actual technical merit of a solution.

    For example I'd not use Google as they seem to drop products at will, which doesn't inspire long term confidence. However I do like AWS partially because of the excellent documentation they provide.

    Basically, the way you behave and your past actions are actually as important as your product.

    I suspect I'll never be using Oracle cloud. :)

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I class all cloudy products as minimally viable. Ooooh, minimal.

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