The European Commission joins forces with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is a nice victory for Oracle, whose cloud is becoming increasingly important.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) counts the European Commission among its customers. After a public tender, OCI prevailed and not one of the hyperscalers (Google, AWS or Microsoft). That’s good news for Oracle, which has a tiny market share compared to the big three but is growing like crazy in both adoption and relevance.
The European Commission and Oracle have entered into a six-year partnership. In concrete terms, this means that the European institution will develop its services based on the OCI platform. OCI does not communicate exactly which arguments were decisive for the choice. The cloud provider refers to tools for security and compliance, but of course the competition also offers these.
What about European parties?
The victory for Oracle also highlights the weakness of the European offering. Although Oracle is a smaller player in the cloud world, the company itself is a large American multinational, just like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. In this respect, this announcement is not a particularly good thing for the European tech world, which has no answer.