Don't blame ya I'm a little negative on this one too as I can already "assume" specialized DNS integration with oracle products among possibly ?oracle cloud? Structures spawning up for competition with AWS, Azure ... others but these are just speculations. -- Onward!, Jason Hellenthal, Systems & Network Admin, Mobile: 0x9CA0BD58, JJH48-ARIN On Nov 21, 2016, at 10:26, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote: Happy Monday. This seems to me to be equivalent (and bad for the same reasons) to cable companies and/or ISPs being co-owned with program providers. http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-acquires-dns-provider-dyn-to-take-on-ama... How will this affect *your* operations planning, if at all? Am I being overly cynical about Larry Ellison? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274