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The most interesting thing about this doesn't seem to be their cloud support. It's the inclusion of Xamarin in Oracle sales pitches delivered by their well connected sales force to corporate clients. Seems like a smart way to ease yourself into the corporate world.

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> Seems like a smart way to ease yourself into the corporate world.

Not really easing though; the majority of sales for Xamarin is in the enterprise space.

Exactly, Xamarin's value proposition is enterprise and medium-large software vendors already on the .NET stack that don't want to have to learn Java and Obj-C and have two codebases.

That's a good point. Though, if the enterprise I work in is representative (notwithstanding a singular anecdote not being data), the proportion of people that haven't heard of them is higher than those that have.

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