Hats Off to Larry

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We all loved it when Microsoft finally embraced Linux after a history of attacking it. Some of those outrageous sound bites like “Linux is a cancer…” got played back in triumphant retrospective as we all marked the passing of an era and remarked on the how far we’d come.

Dear Reader,

We all loved it when Microsoft finally embraced Linux after a history of attacking it. Some of those outrageous sound bites like "Linux is a cancer…" got played back in triumphant retrospective as we all marked the passing of an era and remarked on the how far we'd come.

Should we be doing the same thing now with Oracle and the cloud? Oracle founder Larry Ellison made headlines back in 2008 with some very theatrical denunciations of the cloud industry. Ellison called the cloud "nonsense," and once said of the cloud phenomenon, "Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" [1]

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