Oracle
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A Cretaceous Checkpoint
Image via Flickr In our last installment of doing tomorrow’s technological paleontology today, I laid out my case for why IBM’s future looks different than the last decade because financial engineering isn’t the kind of engineering necessary to make the transition to the cloud. For my efforts, I got a lot of financially-oriented pushback that…
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PHuW!™
I have a theory that companies peak soon after they make big, bold, public and very round revenue forecasts of fifty billion or more. Basically, they’re so busy trying to grow to the sky they miss important changes in the market and/or hubris gets the better of them. In some cases, the wheels come off…
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More SORE
Larry Ellison is banging the drum about how Soracle is serious about keeping Sun’s hardware business. What should we conclude from this? That Oracle desperately wants to get rid of Sun’s hardware business…