“Oracle’s top executives, oozing with confidence that the Sun deal will be closed within the month, spoke animatedly yesterday about the company’s looming transformation from an enterprise software company into a full-fledged systems provider intent on competing head-on with IBM.
In particular, Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison spoke in considerable detail about how his vision of the computer industry of the future is centered on the idea of optimized systems that provide high value to customers because they don’t need to do or pay for a lot of systems integration, and in return provide high margins to the providers.” Read more
