Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?

I was intrigued by this article on Cloudera's strategy to revolutionize enterprise-level IT by modeling itself after Oracle.

Cloudera has all of the requisite "new tech" street cred: open source, cloud-based and founders that hail from Google, Facebook and Yahoo. They intentionally are attacking the vertical stack paradigm and have more VC funds than they need. YET, their main principle is that new data processing and analysis needs aren't that new and that the core capabilities of companies like Oracle still apply, they just need to be applied in a new way.

Weirdly, I think it could work. What do you think?