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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 09:43 PM EDT

Of course ORACLE is desperate

Public companies have to keep growing - but HOW do they do that....

The DB market is pretty mature. There is growth - but MS SQL server is also
slowing moving into bigger Databases.
They bought SUN - but that hasnt been a huge growth centre
The bought all those ERP companies etc... and SAP have been doing better than
ever.

They had a chance to get people on their side (the open source market) and
they have alienated tech community after tech community. (this trial being JUST
ONE example of it. One company I deal with is an HP Itanium shop. They are now
putting all new DBs on SQL server after Oracle´s games on that. They dont trust
ORACLE any more and the techs really dislike them for that exercise.

Then there is the 3rd party support market - new and oracle are trying to stop
that - but customers are VERY interested in it - and that tells you what they
think about oracle again. They arent going to disappear - but really they a
destroying enormous amounts of goodwill every day - and I dont think they
realise it..... but their revenues ARE shrinking - and thats why.... and thats
why they will continue to shrink....

Unless there is a major change in mindset....

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One outcome of this trial - Authored by: mpellatt on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 01:43 AM EDT
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  - Extensive retraining - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 05:59 PM EDT

One outcome of this trial

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 12:22 AM EDT

Does Larry Ellison see some writing on the wall about the future of Oracle?

Don't ever forget Oracle exists to make money for Larry Ellison.

If something doesn't make money for Larry Ellison then it must be monetized.

If it can't be monetized, then it is dumped; e.g. OpenOffice.

This lawsuit isn't so much about the future of Oracle per se as it is about trying to monetize Java.

Instead of keeping Java a proprietary language and being a "big fish in a small pond", Sun was content to open-source Java and be a "small fish in a big pond".

Oracle wants the fish, the pond and the shoreline.

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Yes, you can't have your fish and eat it, too. ...nt - Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT

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