Sure, customers can (and do) complain about Oracle’s costs and licensing fees and terms, but they shouldn’t about delivery, Kimball emphasized. They are “very measured, very execution focused, very driven” to deliver the same experience for every customer across every region.
“They’ve been living in this space more than most companies have been around,” he said. “When they deliver a product out into market, they deliver a full-functioning product.”
All told, when considering cloud environments, buyers have many factors to consider: the cost of moving data, workloads, hybrid clouds, security, residency, locality, and overall trust in the company. But when it comes to OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google, they needn’t worry about support from a computational perspective, Kimball noted.