Oracle CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison, who just a few years ago famously mocked the notion of cloud computing, has positioned the company as one set up to become the industry’s largest cloud player, with something to offer customers at all levels of the stack.

“We couldn’t just be a specialist in [software as a service] like a Salesforce.com,” Ellison said Sunday during a keynote at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. “We couldn’t be a specialist in [infrastructure as a service] like an Amazon.”

While Oracle has been building out the various pieces of its cloud portfolio steadily over the past couple of years, it seemed like Ellison saw this year’s conference as a chance to tell the industry that the entire meal is now fully baked.

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