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I think you are being very pessimistic. All of their acquisitions are used to fund reinventions but due to their existing mainframe and other support contracts
by zitterbewegung 3y ago
I think you are being very pessimistic. All of their acquisitions are used to fund reinventions but due to their existing mainframe and other support contracts it makes a moat that people have a hard time crossing. I could see Oracle being merged or bought by IBM.
- 0x0000000 3y ago> I could see Oracle being merged or bought by IBM. Their market caps are almost identical, and personally I'd say it'll be a cold day in hell before Oracle merges with, nevermind is acquired by, IBM.
- Timon3 3y agoI definitely am pessimistic, but that is probably due to my time working for them :) I can't remember any acquisition during my time there that didn't get significantly worse. Red Hat was the one hold-out, but this thread is example enough for me to know that nothing has changed since.