This latter name change is meant to signify that Oracle is not just fooling around in the cloud anymore. (Ellison is nothing if he is not amusing.) And starting this year, as the company is again shifting its attention, we have CloudWorld. Precisely what Oracle meant about “open” in its event name is not clear, but the World According to Larry Ellison certainly has no ambiguities in it.

In the wake of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2009 and after the merger a few years later with Sun’s JavaWorld event, this became Oracle OpenWorld. Thus, a partnership between Nvidia and Oracle is the highlight of the CloudWorld event.Īn aside: As the dot-com boom was busting in 2001 and Oracle was trying to stir up excitement about its wares, the company launched the Oracle World event. But they cannot ignore the opportunity to add AI to the applications and middleware that they host, and they know, like everyone else, that Nvidia by far has the most developed and diverse AI stack. Frankly, the second-tier, niche clouds like Oracle and IBM have no choice but to embrace whatever the popular AI stack is in the world, and they can decide to do or not do HPC as they see fit. And they are certainly not rich enough to take on Nvidia’s HPC and AI stacks, which have been in development for a decade and a half and which now include a pair of complete software stacks that accelerates an aggregate of over 3,000 applications.Īnd that, is a nutshell, is why Oracle is making a big deal about a broad and deep partnership with Nvidia at its CloudWorld 2022 event today. They cannot have a “not invented here” attitude.

The further down in the cloud tiers, the smaller the R&D budget for unique things.Īnd so all of these other smaller clouds, which are still large by any measure compared to any individual Global 2000 company that is not a hyperscaler or cloud builder, have to play to their niches.