By Dick Weisinger, on September 14th, 2007
We’ve commented here before about Oracle’s small presence in the SaaS marketplace, and without Oracle Siebel CRM offering, there doesn’t seem much else to mention. But part of what’s different about Oracle is their perception and thought process around what on-Demand means. Oracle President Charles Phillips has described the Oracle strategy of on-Demand [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on September 6th, 2007
An earlier Formtek blog discussed how Oracle’s core RDBMS product is being undercut in price by both Microsoft’s SQL Server and MySQL. Most shops running Oracle know there are options out there, but most fear the risk and costs involved in moving to a different database platform.
There’s another option available now to Oracle shops [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on August 31st, 2007
Oracle (ORCL) recently introduced Siebel 14, an updated version of its on-demand CRM offering. There has been speculation for some time that Oracle would move more aggressively into the SaaS market, but beyond CRM, that hasn’t really happened. Why it hasn’t happened isn’t entirely clear. There may be worry that such a [...]