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I think it is probably either:

1. Companies wanting to go cloud, and depend on something like RAC that Oracle refuses to licence to other scalers.

2. Companies beliving in "multi-cloud", and some corrupt exec deciding that Oracle should be one of the options.

I know that a few gigs ago I had to deal with them as part of the multi-cloud enterprise strategy for these reasons.

Indeed, Oracle refuses RAC for example in Azure but we build an HA solution on Azure VMs that is highly reliable and has redundancy for both instance and storage using data guard. Not exactly RAC but very close and highly reliable with proper apps connection configurations databases switchover are transparent for the apps and all this for a fraction of price we would pay if went to Oracle Cloud. We developed automated patching solution on top of that and now we have reliability higher than we had on Exadata. And of course much cheaper. You can guess that Oracle does not like that as they need to sell you as much licenses and Cloud resources as they can.

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