Interesting developments at Oracle ....

Don't want to start a war but I caught this today on the web. Notice the line about making the IAS
as big as the database products...interesting...

Are we going to have to become IAS - DBAs??? I think that Mr. Ellison should spend less time on
conquering the world and more on making his products compete in the market.

What are your thoughts?...

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June 26, 2000 

Oracle Plays the Reinvention Game 

Larry Ellison tries, once again, to redefine his database software company
as a dot-com. 

By Elinor Abreu 
  
After years of trying to shed his company's database-centric image 
and after a week in which its stock was hammered because of perceived
softening in its 
core database business Larry Ellison is counting on a big announcement this
week to 
convince investors that Oracle really is an Internet company.

On Wednesday, Ellison "will reveal the culmination of his Internet vision
which has 
been three years in the making," according to a company statement. 

The big news? The release of Oracle Internet Application Server, software
that 
provides the infrastructure to manage business processes online. IAS will 
"redefine the application server market," boasts Jeremy Burton, senior VP of
product 
marketing. "We want to make our application-server business as big as our
database 
business."  Emphasis mine.

In addition to the standard applications for transactions, order entry, 
marketing and human resources, the new product includes features that aren't
in 
Oracle's current application server, such as the Apache Web server, 
the Internet File System for storing and managing all types of content, 
and portal technology to create customized views of corporate data for
customers, 
employees and partners.



Check it out in full context - 
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16339,00.html

Thanks,

Frank N. Pettinato
Oracle Database Administrator
Planning and Logistics - LADDS