Oracle’s Massive $20B Meta Cloud Deal Shakes Up the AI Cloud Wars
Background: Oracle’s Cloud Business Transformation Oracle Corporation built its empire on database software, but it came late to the cloud computing market. Through the 2010s, Oracle struggled for relevance as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud grabbed a combined 65%+ share of the cloud market reuters.com. Oracle was often dismissed as a legacy” player, with co-founder Larry Ellison famously deriding cloud computing as gibberish” in its early days qz.com. Over the past few years, however, Oracle has executed a striking cloud reinvention focused on high-performance infrastructure and strategic partnerships. Instead of trying to beat the incumbents at their
