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Oracle’s VP of Cloud, Tyler Jewell, kicked off this year’s Cloud Expo with a keynote aimed at filling out the company’s vision for its recently announced Oracle Public Cloud. He covered a ton of material, and I won’t try to summarize it here, but I will admit to feeling a growing sense of confusion as the keynote progressed. Jewell kept saying the word “cloud”, but it was rarely clear to me that what he was talking about was “cloud” by any normal definition of “cloud computing,” even taking into account the fact that there’s not even a clear, agreed-upon definition the term.

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