<story><title>Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/zoom-taps-oracle-for-cloud-deal-passing-over-amazon-microsoft.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>My guess is simply, they don&amp;#x27;t want to fund their own competitors. Microsoft is a direct competitor already (so is Google,) and who knows what Amazon will do. That really only leaves IBM and Oracle. I&amp;#x27;ve always been baffled when someone hosts on their competitors&amp;#x27; platform. Like Netflix hosting on AWS, and Grocery Stores hosting on AWS. Microsoft &amp;amp; Google rarely have that problem (except on this one.)</text></item><item><author>cmauniada</author><text>Why? Is it because of cost? Perhaps nepotism? I don&amp;#x27; see a reason why Amazon or Azure would be passed over in favour of Oracle. Why wasn&amp;#x27;t GCP a contender either? Something seems fishy... someone from Zoom care to chime in?&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are afraid that Amazon or Microsoft with their tradition of copying competition would pose a threat? Even then, Microsoft is already competing using Microsoft Teams and if Amazon wanted to it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be hard for them at all to come up with a product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ViViDboarder</author><text>I’ve been impressed by what I’ve heard about Walmart. They apparently won’t even use a SaaS tool if it’s hosted on Amazon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/zoom-taps-oracle-for-cloud-deal-passing-over-amazon-microsoft.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>partiallypro</author><text>My guess is simply, they don&amp;#x27;t want to fund their own competitors. Microsoft is a direct competitor already (so is Google,) and who knows what Amazon will do. That really only leaves IBM and Oracle. I&amp;#x27;ve always been baffled when someone hosts on their competitors&amp;#x27; platform. Like Netflix hosting on AWS, and Grocery Stores hosting on AWS. Microsoft &amp;amp; Google rarely have that problem (except on this one.)</text></item><item><author>cmauniada</author><text>Why? Is it because of cost? Perhaps nepotism? I don&amp;#x27; see a reason why Amazon or Azure would be passed over in favour of Oracle. Why wasn&amp;#x27;t GCP a contender either? Something seems fishy... someone from Zoom care to chime in?&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are afraid that Amazon or Microsoft with their tradition of copying competition would pose a threat? Even then, Microsoft is already competing using Microsoft Teams and if Amazon wanted to it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be hard for them at all to come up with a product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toyg</author><text>That, and likely Oracle is doing it for free (or thereabout), financing it out of their advertising budget.&lt;p&gt;Zoom is the success story of these corona-times of ours; the headline alone is marketing gold, particularly considering &lt;i&gt;nobody else&lt;/i&gt; in the &amp;quot;startupsphere&amp;quot; will ever give Oracle this sort of visibility - or even the time of day. At a time when Oracle is trying to push an image of being startup-friendly, this is better than the alternatives (each word they tweet on &amp;quot;helping startups&amp;quot; unleashes waves of mean and snarky jokes).</text></comment>