Larry Ellison says ‘Amazon’s lead is over’ as Oracle unveils new cloud infrastructure

Just like Larry Ellison said Oracle would, today at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, the company unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers to run their applications in Oracle data centers.
One particular instance, or virtual-machine (VM) type, that Oracle is making available in this second-generation offering — the Dense IO Shape — offers 28.8TB, 512GB, and 36 cores, at a price of $5.40 per hour. That product offers more th