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First Oracle acquired Peoplesoft. They could've changed their name or Orasoft. Then they acquired Siebel, and should've changed their name or Orabel. Jokes asi

First Oracle acquired Peoplesoft. They could've changed their name or Orasoft. Then they acquired Siebel, and should've changed their name or Orabel. Jokes aside, Oracle has been on a huge acquisition spree for many years. Fusion (based on the Weblogic acqusition) was supposed to integrate all the other acquisitions, as well as partner products. It was over-hyped, and took years to fully materialize. And then Oracle missed the cloud boat, and has been playing catch-up ever since. Probably most importantly is their sales strategy. As a potential Oracle customer all you had to do was mention Microsoft, and Oracle products would get heavily discounted. And then the customer would get stung for extortionate consulting fees and license renewal costs. They used to be a quality name in the industry, but have slowly and very steadily eroded that reputation.

nickpsecurity 11y ago
I was talking about the companies marketing document, key-value, cloud, etc. databases. New & improved, at least different, technologies that were coming from many different areas and getting lots of users. They might have acquired many top-name companies in those bunch and Oracle's NoSQL products have millions of paying users. I haven't followed Oracle acquisitions closely so I had to take a guess: Oracle's culture would make them primarily acquire things similar to them: RDBMS's, ERP, etc. Then, companies doing things in different ways would keep scooping up customers that might have bought Oracle. Was this the case or was I way off? You seem to know more about their acquisitions.