is working on cloud at Oracle considered OCI?

Is OCI a separate subsidiary?

Oracle hyphy Jun 3, 2019

OCI is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It is not a subsidiary. There is also a legacy older cloud product, OCIC (OCI Classic), though I'm not sure about its current state. It is also not a subsidiary (The above views are my own and do not represent Oracle's position etc etc)

Ascension Health ixBN06 OP Jun 3, 2019

So if I worked on Cloud at Oracle would I be considered OCI?

Oracle hyphy Jun 3, 2019

There are also cloud apps, so not necessarily

Oracle dDlG06 Jun 4, 2019

Nope. If you don't know you're working for OCI, then you're not at OCI. Who is your VP? Everybody under Miranda is SaaS. PaaS doesn't has one single VP I think. IaaS is OCI.

Ascension Health ixBN06 OP Jun 4, 2019

I don’t work at Oracle

Amazon 669 Jun 4, 2019

I heard OCI was independent business unit... used to be isolated from the main Oracle.. but definitely part of Oracle since it was funded by Oracle, all OCI employees were Oracle employees.. It probably was a secret project so regular Oracle employees didn’t even know about it ... Now it’s no longer a secret.. but still a separate org... Internal tech culture (like speed, agility, quality) is more like AWS/Azure than main Oracle :)

Oracle dEBv34 Jun 4, 2019

Nope it sorta started that way but it is now ground to a screeching halt by the Oracle beauracracy.

Oracle pzd Jun 4, 2019

I was told by someone from oci that work culture there is closer to Amazon / Microsoft because we poached a lot of people from those companies.

Oracle SDET Jun 5, 2019

if your interview has leetcode medium to hard questions then it's OCI

Ascension Health ixBN06 OP Jun 5, 2019

Is Oracle vanilla okay?

Oracle DOkq13 Jun 5, 2019

Depends what okay means to you.

Oracle crWx20 Jun 6, 2019

Yes, Oracle bought Nimbula, and yes, it was Chris Pinkham’s company, and yes he pitched and started the EC2 project at Amazon. However, Nimbula became OCI-C, not OCI. Nimbula was targeted for private clouds (basically a provisioning system) and wasn’t designed to scale ... and it didn’t. The only way Nimbula was involved with OCI, was when Chris was leaving, he hired or suggested that TK hire Don Johnson and Craig Kelly, and task them with building what we call OCI today. When we reached ~35 people, TK hired Peter Magnusson. He tasked us with fixing OCI-C first, and this delayed things for quite a while.