Hello Friends , One of our client has recently opened a quote for managing / hosing their IT infrastructure. Now , some of the biggies came in to tue picture like IBM , TCS etc and there comes ' Oracle Cloud'. I heard they have also come up with a quote ( or may be they will). I am just thinking how other ' infrastructure as a service ' (Data centre services ) providers can compete with Oracle cloud services. The reason I think so are 1. The servers are theirs 2.Database and App server are theirs 3. Now about management and administration , they have the best admins with them. Systems , weblogic, database all in form of My Oracle Support. 4. What can be the license cost as they are defining what license cost is ? 5. Maintaining SLA? They have the best people with them. Now, who can compete ? What will be the life of other providers ? May be other companies ? DBAs ? I am just thinking every company would think of (at least) oracle cloud as their ultimate cost reduction method ! Software cost as well as labour cost ! Any thoughts on this ? Regards, Sreejith -- Sent from my iPhone-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l