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I was talking to the director of IT risk at one of the top 5 banks in the US yesterday, and they seem to be moving in the direction Oracle is talking about away

I was talking to the director of IT risk at one of the top 5 banks in the US yesterday, and they seem to be moving in the direction Oracle is talking about away from multi-vendor systems. Based on SAP, Oracle, and IBM succeeding in this space it is hard to argue there ISN'T lots of money to be made. With most people in the small business area either on some kind of Microsoft stack or FOSS based stuff, the big blue chips are the only ones buying from these companies and it is best to cater to their needs.

ams6110 17y ago
I was thinking about this today, wondering if it's the start of one of those market pendulum direction changes. We had the vertical "systems" provider in IBM. You bought everything from them, hardware, 3270 terminals, printers, networks, software, everything. Then we moved into the era where you bought everything from different vendors. Servers from one vendor, networking gear from another, software from everyone and anyone, and people start to realize "gee this is a f-ing mess, can't I just get one company to do all this for me" and that's where Oracle wants to step in and be able to say "yes".