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Episode 089 — Move On from the 80s

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ben and James discuss Oracle’s prospects in the crowd and how the Internet has changed the enterprise. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Oracle’s Cloudy Future — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Is AWS a Commodity? — Stratechery Daily Update Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback Presented by MailChimp

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:00.8

Ben, how are you?

0:03.2

Honestly, well, I have two, I have two problems, a near-term one and a short-term one or a short-term

0:07.7

one and a long-term one.

0:08.4

At least you don't have 99 problems.

0:10.4

Well, the short-term one is, thank you.

0:14.1

The short-term one is I was being very productive this morning.

0:18.3

I already went to Costco and bought a bunch of about a bunch of stuff. Very good. It is good. It's still pretty warm though in Taiwan. So as I

0:25.8

carried it into my, into my office here, I got a little, a little, you know, what's the word, sweaty.

0:32.6

And the problem, though, is I don't want to run the air conditioner while talking. We've discussed this before. So I had to quickly take a cold shower, so we're starting a little late.

0:40.5

So you had to take a cold shower before you got on the phone with me, huh?

0:46.4

Nice.

0:47.4

Yes, yes, something like that.

0:50.3

The long-term problem is that I'm honestly still recovering from trying to explain relational.

0:56.0

To be fair, I thought you did a pretty damn good job.

1:02.6

It is hard to take a complicated topic like that.

1:05.7

And it's for people who understand it, it's like it's intuitive.

1:09.7

But for people who have never heard of it

1:11.1

before, it's hard to take something like that and, and explain it in a way that a layperson

1:15.7

can understand it. I thought you did a good job. Well, thank you. We'll get to in just a moment.

1:19.8

First, we want to thank our presenting sponsor, presenting sponsor, which is MailChimp.

1:25.4

Yeah, yeah, well, our only sponsor. Yeah.

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