The End of Larry Vs. Amazon? AWS Looking to Dump Oracle, Report Says

According to reports, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does not want to spend "another $ 50 million" on Oracle technology this quarter.

In the company's most recent revenue call, Larry Ellison, Oracle's Technical Director, relied on AWS, Salesforce and SAP using the Oracle software. Now at least two of the three companies, AWS and Salesforce, are working to get rid of Oracle and develop their own databases, according to The Information.

"Let me tell you that is not moving away from Oracle," said Ellison in Oracle's second fiscal quarter on fiscal year 2018 results. "A company you've heard of has given us 50 million dollars to buy. Oracle databases and other Oracle technologies, this company is Amazon. "

Ellison also said that Salesforce "works completely with Oracle".

However, Amazon has changed two internal databases that run its ecommerce business from Oracle to NoSQL, a type of open source database software, according to The Information, citing "two people with knowledge of change".

In the meantime, Salesforce plans to be completely out of Oracle by 2023, according to the report, which quotes a former Salesforce employee. The company has developed its own database to replace Oracle, with the code name Sayonara, Japanese for "say goodbye", and is ready to implement it internally.

Oracle declined to comment and AWS did not respond to requests for comments. A Salesforce spokesperson said the company was not commenting on the rumors, but added, "Salesforce is focused on providing the most reliable, reliable and resilient infrastructure available and we do it with a multi-vendor approach. . "

Will that result in a quieter Ellison, who likes to make fun of AWS at every possible opportunity? Probably not.

Another company that can lose if AWS develops its own software is Red Hat.

Jeff Barr of AWS writes about the new version of his Linux operating system, Amazon Linux 2, in a blog post published in December. This decision could put the cloud giant in direct competition with Linux and the open source software distributor Red Hat in the corporate space.

But while it's "not a good thing" for Red Hat, according to Karl Keirstead of Deutsche Bank, investors should not "overreact." AWS software is always pre-beta and the "full version will take time". "Barron's reports.