Google’s parent company Alphabet is moving its internal financial operations from Oracle to SAP software. The news, first reported by CNBC, comes on the same day that the Supreme Court delivered its final ruling in a decade-long legal battle between Oracle and Google (handover from Google).
While the ten-year battle over Java APIs is now officially over, Google and Oracle are still competitive in other areas. Both Google Cloud and Oracle are trying to increase their respective shares in the cloud computing market by appealing to enterprise customers – especially those in need of hybrid and multi-cloud services, as well as those migrating workloads to the cloud.
As noted by CNBC, for years Oracle refused to certify its database software for Google Cloud, which hampered Google’s pitch for customers who wanted to host Oracle databases in the cloud. Last year, however, Google Cloud introduced bare metal institutions for Oracle database.
“Google Cloud is actively enabling Oracle customers to run their Oracle database workload on Google Cloud through our Bare Metal solution,” Google spokesman José Castañeda said in a statement to ZDNet. “But it is completely different from our decision as a corporate client of financial software to switch our financial systems from Oracle to SAP.”
Meanwhile, Google’s move will surely catch up with Oracle, where co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has made a very pronounced point in highlighting the number of major customers moving from SAP to Oracle cloud applications. At the Oracle Q3 conference, Ellison listed dozens of companies and government agencies that moved from SAP ERP to Fusion ERP.
Oracle did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ZDNet.