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Oracle

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1 creator use or recommend it

1 use 21 mention 3 critical
Last discussed Oct 8, 2026

Enterprise database management and cloud computing solutions

How Oracle compares

2 creators weighed in
Microsoft Direct rival
cloud and software company

Both are major cloud providers businesses can choose between. Rory lists them as alternatives competing for the same customers.

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2 creators
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Sarah Friar

"That will be sticking shovels in the ground on a 1 gigawatt data center which is part of our Oracle complex."

Part of multi-CSP strategy including Microsoft, GCP, AWS

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Rory O'Driscoll

"You've got three or four cloud providers who are dying to do business with you. You've got Oracle, you got Google, you've got Microsoft, you got CoreWeave."

Listed alongside Google, Microsoft, and CoreWeave as hyperscaler alternatives to building custom chips

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Used for: Data center infrastructure partnership vs: Part of multi-CSP strategy including Microsoft, GCP, AWS

"That will be sticking shovels in the ground on a 1 gigawatt data center which is part of our Oracle complex."

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Chris Williamson
mentioned

"Larry Ellison's Oracle helps to secure TikTok's USA data and their algorithm... Oracle's name actually comes from the CIA project that its founders worked on."

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Vladimir Keil
mentioned

"We retrieve some information, you match this across other documents, and then you push this back to SAP or Oracle. A very clear process."

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Rory O'Driscoll
mentioned

"The only reason they're able to do it — only burning $278 billion — is because other companies like Oracle, like Nvidia with kind of rev support and backstop insurance are able to say we'll do the capex and you know lease it to you."

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"You've got three or four cloud providers who are dying to do business with you. You've got Oracle, you got Google, you've got Microsoft, you got Co..."

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Sean McCarthy
mentioned

"Some do have SAP and Oracle and some of these other common systems of record."

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Tom Bilyeu
mentioned

"You've got Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Visa, Mastercard."

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"Oracle is on is the next company up for massive job cuts, potentially 20 to 30,000 jobs across the board. This is to free up 8 to 10 billion in cas..."

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Raoul Pal
mentioned
Praised: Larry Ellison's track record; aggressive AI compute build-out strategy likely...

"Interesting to me right now might be Oracle. Never fade Larry Ellison is one rule in life. The guy knows what he's doing. You look at the share price of Oracle since he started the company, it is unreal."

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Ben Thompson
mentioned
vs: Used as historical example of enterprise lock-in strategy parallel to what cl...

"Oracle went to market in the '80s with relational databases, saying you don't want to be locked into IBM — come with us. The reason this is a joke is because Oracle locks you in more than anyone."

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Eric Vishria
mentioned
vs: Grouped with SQL Server as dominant legacy database vendors whose moats are c...

"Of course you got Oracle and SQL Server and a whole slew of smaller players that did really really well in databases."

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KR Sridhar
mentioned
Used for: Powering Oracle data centers with on-site distributed energy from Bloom's solid oxide fuel cells

"There was a data center in Utah that was being built and had to come online for Oracle's customer and the power systems were delayed. So they came to us and said can you give us a temporary solution for a year. We signed a contract with them that ..."

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Used for: Mission-critical financial transactions where reliability is paramount vs: Compared to MySQL/open source databases as the expensive incumbent that open ...

"Why are we using an Oracle database for this when we could do MySQL? The debate was would anybody use an open source database? And now that's not a question. It's an exclamation point. Everybody uses an open source database. For some rare things l..."

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"You can't have a single dependency on any technology, whether it would be an Oracle database, and then that created MySQL and other alternatives th..."

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Nikesh Arora
mentioned
Used for: Core database infrastructure and sales tracking systems Praised: Undervalued, essential infrastructure vs: Listed alongside Databricks, Snowflake, and MongoDB as essential infrastructure

"Infrastructure software undervalued. Databricks, snowflake, MongoDB, Oracle, all these things you need."

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Simon Dixon
mentioned
vs: Listed alongside Palantir as part of control grid technology

"You have control grids with Palantir and technology and Oracle and all the different complex nodes within that structure."

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Ed Zitron
critical

"There's a reason Oracle's probably going to die as a result of OpenAI because Oracle's future depends on OpenAI spending $300 billion over 5 years."

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Ed Elson
critical

"Oracle borrowed $43 billion to build data centers over the past year. Oracle's free cash flow is negative — it burned roughly $24 billion over the same period. Taking on record debt while running negative cash flows, well, that is a great recipe f..."

"Oracle getting rid of 20 to 30,000 employees via a 6 a.m. email"

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David Friedberg sponsored

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"NetSuite by Oracle, you can put AI to work today."

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