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Oracle losing legacy software sales, growing (public?) cloud sales

Once again, the key metric of new software license sales was off—falling 19% to $1.35 billion compared to last year, and missing analysts’ expectations of $1.44 billion. On the other hand: “Our cloud revenue will be larger than our new software license revenue next fiscal year, when the transition will be largely complete.” And: “Our cloud applications goal is to be the world largest and most profitable SaaS company.

Not actually a DevOps talk

I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, going over the why’s, the how’s, the technologies, and the meatware that supports including some best and worst practices based on what Pivotal customers do. See the newer slides with big pictures on most slides, and some of the older slides Also, here’s a more blatantly pro-Pivotal (and longer) version that you might have seen, esp.

Not actually a DevOps talk

I get asked to talk on DevOps a lot. Here’s my current (late 2016 and 2017) presentation, going over the why’s, the how’s, the technologies, and the meatware that supports including some best and worst practices based on what Pivotal customers do. See the newer slides with big pictures on most slides, and some of the older slides Also, here’s a more blatantly pro-Pivotal (and longer) version that you might have seen, esp.