Oracle’s Cloud Pivot Fuels Market-Defying Growth
Oracle Corporation (ORCL -1.33%), once dismissed as a stagnant tech relic, has surged nearly 400% over five years by reinventing its legacy database business for the cloud era. The shift from on-premise software to cloud-native solutions like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) now positions it as a credible challenger to AWS and Azure in the infrastructure-as-a-service arena.
The company's Core relational databases—backbones of financial systems and enterprise software—now operate alongside flexible non-relational alternatives, mirroring the architectural duality seen in blockchain ecosystems. This hybrid approach demonstrates how traditional tech giants can adapt to the decentralized computing paradigm without abandoning mission-critical systems.