Comments on: Why Oracle sweetened its bid for BEA

By: N.Walter, Austin, TX

N.Walter, Austin, TX — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:17:18 +0000

It's interesting to see how companies evolve and prosper.

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By: Brian, Boulder, CO

Brian, Boulder, CO — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:21:01 +0000

Well Oracle now has the #1 DB, the #1 (BEA) AND #3 (Oracle Fusion) Middleware offering, and the #2 Applications offering(s) (Oracle E-business Suite, PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel et cetera). They will get the integration details hammered out sooner then later, and likely sooner then their competition since they own all these companies now. This company is the next big Technology Juggernaut, no doubt.

SAP, see ya later…Microsoft and IBM, move over.

By: IT manager, NY

IT manager, NY — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:55:53 +0000

And Oracle has already started bugging the devil out of me on their fusion middleware offerings. The problem with Oracle's hyper-drive acquisitios is that they doa very bad job of integration. Most of their bundled solutions are kluges. We've tried several and have had to abandon them all for other soluitons. The World doesn't need another Microsoft to suck up market share and then offer poorly designed, expensive solutions. Oracle has only done one this well in its entire history: they have a rock solid database. Larry Ellison is an ego maniac, who will be the end or Oracle one day. Sure Sun bought MySQL, but it cannot do the heavy-lifting that Oracle, Sybase and DB2 do quite will.

By: Chris, Tampa FL

Chris, Tampa FL — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:05:36 +0000

Ellison was wrong about no more Silicon Valley booms??? He was right in every detail. Two big IPOs in six years = nuclear winter.

Even better, the conventional wisdom at the time said "We'll bounce back in 2003!!"

From Jon Fortt: You can't forget about startup acquisitions, though. There have been a ton of those. And it's hard to argue that Web 2.0 and SAAS aren't providing a mini-boom out here in Silicon Valley. (Ellison backed Netsuite himself, which says something.)

By: The VAR Guy, Centerport, NY

The VAR Guy, Centerport, NY — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:07:12 +0000

Oracle purchased the wrong company. The Sun-MySQL combo is far more compelling. Sun purchased the future, Oracle purchased the past.