Re: Oracle buys... Dyn.

[Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com>]

Oracle has exhibition booths at most web hosting events in Europe. They get very little traffic. Am skeptical they can 
be a player.


- R.


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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal () dataix net>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 6:27 PM
To: North American Network Operators' Group
Subject: Re: Oracle buys... Dyn.

Lets just hope so, or Id think that the there will eventually be a price hike by AWS to compensate for Oracle's 
outrageous costs.

But again only speculation at this point.

> On Nov 21, 2016, at 11:22, Akshay Kumar <akshay () mongodb com> wrote:
>
> Route53 just uses Dyn and Ultra. I would expect AWS to roll out their own soon.
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:18 PM, J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal () dataix net> wrote:
> Don't blame ya I'm a little negative on this one too as I can already "assume" specialized DNS integration with 
> oracle products among possibly ?oracle cloud? Structures spawning up for competition with AWS, Azure ... others but 
> these are just speculations.
>
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> On Nov 21, 2016, at 10:26, Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
>
> Happy Monday.
>
> This seems to me to be equivalent (and bad for the same reasons) to cable
> companies and/or ISPs being co-owned with program providers.
>
>  http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-amazons-lead-in-the-cloud
[http://zdnet3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/11/21/28ab95ae-b687-4f4b-8caf-03c9062595ad/thumbnail/770x578/f50013e5a44bbde27721ff1b4d6e562f/screen-shot-2016-11-21-at-13-26-57.jpg]<http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-amazons-lead-in-the-cloud>

Oracle acquires DNS powerhouse Dyn to take on leading cloud players | 
ZDNet<http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-amazons-lead-in-the-cloud>
www.zdnet.com
Oracle is a strong player in the datacenter realm, but with this deal, perhaps Larry Ellison's cloud dreams are coming 
closer.


> How will this affect *your* operations planning, if at all?  Am I being
> overly cynical about Larry Ellison? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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