Re: Article- IBM vs. Oracle: It Could Get Bloody

Having the misfortune of having to administer Oracle databases backending Siebel, I have followed the Ellison vs. Siebel divorce carefully. If Larry's not careful, all the Tom Siebel's of the world will keep inking deals with IBM and marketing DB2 as their primary platform. To counter this, Larry is now giving Oracle's CRM solution away for free (Yeah, right. Oh you want it to work? Well, you'll have to buy these bells and whistles...). The point is, the more Larry tries to transform Oracle into "not just a database company", the more I'm worried. I don't know squat about DB2 or SQLServer...

Jim

> Link:
> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_22/b3734104.htm
>
> Blurb:
> "Oracle has shifted from rattling its saber at Microsoft to Big Blue
> -- with good reason. IBM has become the software maker's chief rival
> in several segments. Experts say IBM's strategy of painting itself as
> a neutral party in the applications market could serve it well on the
> database front because Oracle competes in applications with many of
> the partners it counts on to help sell its databases."
>
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