This week Oracle expanded its effort by buying Navio, a spin-off from Netscape Communications.
And Oracle, the software, hardware, and database company, recently announced its Cloud API managing infrastructure.
David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy, Oracle Retail, picked up on the theme.
That was during the dot-bust rollup, and I said it was impossible to do another Oracle.
Giant incumbents like IBM, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and, yes, Oracle, guard the turf too closely.
It is true that both SAP and its primary rival Oracle make a lot of money.
They include Apple, Baidu (the Google of China) EMC, Oracle, Juniper, Amazon and QualComm.
Oracle's Larry Ellison, in particular, is a well-known supporter of the trend towards Internet computing.
The triumvirate that has run Oracle for nearly a decade has done so successfully.
He could speak like a prophet or an oracle, endowing buildings with anthropomorphic qualities.
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The Oracle team's boat capsized in a practice session in San Francisco in October.
The Oracle team is owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of Oracle Corp.
Barclay and Oracle Team USA officials each declined to comment on the safety of the boats.
If you follow this column, you know how the biggest company in enterprise software, Oracle Corp.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Amgen and Oracle have a total market cap of around 1.14 Trillion.
"It has been dramatic, " says NetSuite's mild-mannered chief executive and Oracle alum, Zach Nelson.
For the last one, the dominant industry gathering for years now has been Oracle Open World.
The acquisition of RightNow by Oracle makes sense for both companies CRM solutions strategies.
Oracle is expected to announce its fiscal year Q4 2011 earnings on June 23rd.
We discussed this in an earlier note titled Oracle: Profitability is the Focus.
Talapan launched and sold the pharmaceutical software company formerly Clarix, now Phase Forward, to Oracle.
Staff doubled this year to nearly 700, with key hires from Oracle, Google and Salesforce.
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Bellwethers such as International Business Machines and Oracle should fare relatively well, in our view.
How could a great, smart and clever company like Oracle find itself in such a position?
This move will pit the company against three major competitors, Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), and IBM.
Other competitors in the technology sector include: Oracle (ORCL), CA (CA), and Microsoft (MSFT).
Oracle probably did too, especially after the good numbers and the stock jump last December.
So even though Oracle could financially make a large move, we think the probability is remote.
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To make matters worse, Oracle also issued lighter-than-expected guidance for its fiscal third quarter.
Oracle is keeping I-flex independent, and Hukku and his team will continue to run it--for now.
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