Wednesday, February 3, 2010

No plans for Sun to build compute cloud like EC2

Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, mentioned that Oracle would not be offering Sun's long-planned and highly-vaunted compute resource service.

They will just play the role of supplier to components and pieces that can be used in cloud services;

From the beginning and Larry Ellison hates Cloud, and it looks that this will be applied for Sun as well after the complete acquisition done recently ...

3 comments:

Ahmed El Gamil said...

Do you think that this means the Sun's acquisitions of ideas like Qlayer will not go into production later on ?

Thanks for the information in your blog, really interesting :)

Mohamed El-Refaey said...

Hello Ahmed,
Sun acquisition to Q-layer was a promising deal actually, but since it has been acquired by Oracle, the vision was not that clear.

Q-layer has a very good product and platform for virtual private cloud setup, but how Sun or Oracle will merge this platform in Sun cloud offerings or platform has not yet revealed out ... I think it will take some time to know their plans on this.

Mohamed El-Refaey said...

Note also that they might not be offering cloud service with the concept of pay-as-you-use but they can build the technology behind the service for other vendors to use it to provide service like the one Amazon is offering ..