Nickname: middlwareman

Review: Oracle used to make wildly exaggerated claims about their apps beating Peoplesoft and Siebel, only to end up purchasing them because their apps business was a complete failure. Now they make similarly absurd claims about their success in the middleware space. Take anything they say with a serious grain of salt!

Date reviewed: Oct 26, 2005 10:32 PM

Nickname: Archie

Review: Come on, the applications space is no place for the Justice Dept. to help competition. Oracle has simply created a conglomerate of relative losers with Ebiz, JDE, Psft/HR, and Siebel. And they all have different tool kits that won't be consolidated in our lifetime. The real action is the duopoly of Oracle and IBM in the database market -- have you seen Oracle's margins mushroom to 40% during the big computer downturn? Apps are a non-story. The profit and uncompetitive activity is all below that in the stack. Forget Siebel. Watch how customers get tied into database.

Date reviewed: Oct 26, 2005 6:23 PM

Nickname: Brad-AU-MBA

Review: Although SAP has pieces that work together similar to Oracle, SAP's applications can be run on a number of database platforms, including Oracle's. So there's still a lot more freedom for customers using SAP than there is for Oracle.

Date reviewed: Oct 26, 2005 4:05 PM