Sympathy for the Oracle

“I used to envy Larry Ellison. But then I had lunch with one of
his senior minions, and now I feel a little sympathy. Just a
little. 🙂

“It was actually very educational, because it reinforced for me
the power of an open-source sales model, and how it could help
Oracle. Oracle kicks tail with sub-$1 billion companies, selling a
feature/function value model often winning these deals from SAP.
But in the biggest companies, Oracle often loses, and not because
it’s technology is worse…”

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