Oracle launches free cloud training
Oracle takes training free as cloud market share languishes


Oracle is offering free worldwide training and certification in its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Learners now have free access to the company's entire learning curriculum across all skill levels.
The training catalog includes courses at all levels across a range of IT roles, the company said. It includes preparation courses and practice exams to prepare people for testing and gives learners access to live sessions and personalized feedback. Career resources will also help people to secure jobs with their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure skills.
The online courses are available on demand in 13 languages. They include hands-on labs so learners can test their skills in a simulated production environment.
While the cloud training is available at no cost indefinitely, there is a time limit on the free certification. Learners can only get certified from the Oracle University for free until December 31.
Launched in 2016, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the company's cloud computing service. It offers infrastructure, platform, and software as a service (SaaS) options. It also offers Oracle Data Cloud, which offers analytics services.
The company's cloud service hasn't seen the same traction as its competitors. Gartner placed the company in the “niche players” section of its latest public cloud infrastructure magic quadrant behind Alibaba Cloud. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services sat in the “leaders”' section. Synergy Research Group placed the company eighth in market share terms based on its Q2 2021 research.
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Oracle also lost its bid for the Pentagon's since-disbanded JEDI cloud computing contract.
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Last year, German company Union Asset Management AG sued the software giant for allegedly misleading the market on its cloud revenues and bullying customers into cloud migrations with a strategy called Audit, Bargain, Close.
This isn't the first time Oracle has run free training. It also offered free Oracle cloud courses in spring 2020.
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