FTA: > [Larry Ellison's] goal is to leverage Sun to create systems - billing systems, airline reservations systems....where engineers optimize the integration

FTA: > [Larry Ellison's] goal is to leverage Sun to create systems - billing systems, airline reservations systems....where engineers optimize the integration not customers and service providers. He envisions building the successor to Tom Watson Jr's IBM, which he views as the most successful enterprise company of all time. In other words, it's all about vertical control. Oracle wants to be the IBM of the 1960s ... the IBM that was eventually sued for anti-competitive practices, incidentally, because customers were locked into their closed, top-down computer systems.