This is a second hard blow inflicted by Google to Oracle. At the same time that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Googleplex firm in the dispute that has opposed the latter for more than 10 years to Oracle about the use of Java in Android, we learned by CNBC that Alphabet will switch next May from Oracle to SAP for its financial applications. However, Google's parent company will continue to use other Oracle systems. Questioned by our colleagues, the Californian publisher refused to comment on the information.

This decision will certainly not soften the tense relations between the two competitors on the cloud market. Today, Oracle databases are only available on Google Cloud Platform through a bare metal solution, the publisher refusing to certify its databases on GCP. "Running Oracle Database on a Google Cloud bare metal solution is manual and customer-managed, which can be much more expensive to configure, run and maintain," Oracle scoffs on its site.

"We don't collaborate with Google because they are competitors," Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison explained back in 2018 in a meeting with analysts. That very year, Thomas Kurian, then head of development at Oracle, left the company after 22 years of good and loyal service on a dispute with the same Larry Ellison, and joined shortly after Google Cloud as CEO. A rallying that must have been experienced as a betrayal by the ebullient Larry.

The migration of the Oracle solution to SAP required months of work and extensive engineering resources, explained to CNBC a source close to the operation.

At SAP we rejoice but in discretion. "We are pleased to confirm that Alphabet is running SAP S / 4HANA on Google Cloud to support its financial teams, and we are delighted to continue to develop our work with them," said soberly a spokesperson for the German publisher in an email to our colleagues.

Remember that during the presentation of the company's financial results last month, Larry Ellison had spent about ten minutes praising the success of Oracle in poaching SAP customers. Explaining that his competitor had "missed the boat", he cited a few logos that had been won over completely, such as Western Digital, or partially, such as Honda or DHL.

Surely, this childishness is not ready to end.

Source : 01net