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]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/10/will-oracle-go-subscriptions-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Jeff Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:27:17 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=202#comment-400 That is certainly the conventional wisdom, and many inside SAP have that view. But a couple of things don't square for me on this, the first being that they spent $20b buying application companies, not database and infrastructure (middleware). The db business has leveled out, there just isn't a lot of growth there and you are fighting the open source tide in emerging markets. Of course, you could argue that by acquiring enterprise apps they were in fact protecting their flanks from an open source database assault, very likely speculation indeed. If they really did case only about databases then they would open source all of the applications they just acquired, after ensuring that they only run on Oracle db. There are too many threads to pull together in a comment, I need to take this on in a new post. That is certainly the conventional wisdom, and many inside SAP have that view. But a couple of things don’t square for me on this, the first being that they spent $20b buying application companies, not database and infrastructure (middleware). The db business has leveled out, there just isn’t a lot of growth there and you are fighting the open source tide in emerging markets. Of course, you could argue that by acquiring enterprise apps they were in fact protecting their flanks from an open source database assault, very likely speculation indeed. If they really did case only about databases then they would open source all of the applications they just acquired, after ensuring that they only run on Oracle db.

There are too many threads to pull together in a comment, I need to take this on in a new post.

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/10/will-oracle-go-subscriptions-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Dennis Howlett Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:54:30 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/?p=202#comment-395 tsk tsk Jeff - surely you know by now that ORCL doesn't give a monkey's about the app as long as they get the DB business. As it has been ever since God (sorry Ellison) was a lad. tsk tsk Jeff – surely you know by now that ORCL doesn’t give a monkey’s about the app as long as they get the DB business. As it has been ever since God (sorry Ellison) was a lad.

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