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My opinion is that this type of "dark financing" is more common than many might suspect. I believe this tactic, used by some tech companies to attack competito
by longtimegoogler 7y ago
My opinion is that this type of "dark financing" is more common than many might suspect.
I believe this tactic, used by some tech companies to attack competitors, is fairly effective. I imagine it is mostly employed by those like Oracle that aren't winning in the market.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI am not a fan but I wouldn't call Oracle "not winning". It has been a very profitable company for a very long time. I am not so sure if the current star companies will last that long.
- praptak 7y agoDo their profits come from winning in new markets? I thought they mostly shake down their existing customers who are locked into Oracle systems.
- thedance 7y agoI mean, sure, but looking at the last five years they are getting destroyed by clouds. Amazon, Google, and long-time nemesis Microsoft are all dramatically outperforming Oracle. Nobody wants Oracle's cloud products. The companies that are doing worse than Oracle are other dinosaurs like IBM and Dell. Even VMWare is beating them.
- njarboe 7y agoVMWare is majority owned by Dell.