Oracle announced earlier today that it would be hiring 1000 new sales staff across EMEA between now and the end of the calendar year. That is a relatively significant increase in just a single category in a few months’ time. It has been many years since Oracle has aggressively hired new sales personnel, in EMEA…
Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite has been approved narrowly by NetSuite shareholders and the transaction will close today. I feel that the integration issues will turn out to be far greater than is commonly expected. I think that NetSuite has a totally separate architecture that Oracle will now be obliged to maintain for a gradually shrinking…
Today Oracle announced what it described as its 4th and last extension for its offer to purchase NetSuite at $110.share. So far, the press release indicated that tenders had only been received for 25% of the required shares several months after the offer was made and management for both companies encouraged the transaction. Obviously the…
What does it mean when Oracle declare on Amazon? The fact is that Oracle is suffering a consistent loss of its database market share to all of the database flavors offered by Amazon most especially including its Aurora product which has dramatic price performance advantages over the standard Oracle products. It costs something less than…