ZDNet UK: One Hat Too Big Even for Larry's Head

"While Chairman Gates has traded his megalomaniac persona for that of Uncle Bill the philanthropist, one of the old guard continues to be unapologetic in his Machiavellian manoeuvrings.

"Oracle lacks the universal presence of Microsoft and so has escaped the full measure of opprobrium ladled out to Redmond. Perhaps interpreting this as licence, Ellison was on typical form at Oracle Openworld last week. His attack on Red Hat contained industrial levels of venom and misdirection, fireworks of the sort that hint at the full-scale siege tactics that netted JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel over the last year..."

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