Oracle to hire 2,000 workers to expand cloud business to more countries

Oracle Corp plans to hire nearly 2,000 additional workers as part of an aggressive plan to roll out its cloud computing services to more locations around the world, its cloud chief told Reuters on Monday.

Seeking to better compete with bigger rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp , the move will also help transition Oracle’s business software for finance, sales and other functions to new systems over the next year.

Jobs will be added in Oracle’s software development hubs in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area and India, as well as near new data centers, said Don Johnson, executive vice president of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure unit.