The antitrust dogs turn [on Oracle]

The antitrust dogs turn [on Oracle]
The Washington Times ^ | March 1, 2004 | James Gattuso

Posted on 03/01/2004 5:59:41 AM PST by xsysmgr

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It was only a couple of years ago that Larry Ellison, the charismatic CEO of Oracle Corp., was urging the dogs of antitrust to chase down Bill Gates and Microsoft. How things have changed. Somewhere along the way, the pups got loose and turned on him. Now Oracle itself may wind up feeling the antitrust bite.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: antitrust; oracle; peoplesoft

1 posted on 03/01/2004 5:59:41 AM PST by xsysmgr

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To: xsysmgr

Ahh, Karma

2 posted on 03/01/2004 6:37:02 AM PST by Teacher317

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To: Teacher317

Consider the enterprise database market, Oracles strength. I'm sure they felt this would be OK because IBM was allowed to purchase Informix, resulting in a oligopoly of only three remaining relational database vendors (which software like Peoplesoft run on top of).

I think this answers the question "who has better lawyers, IBM or Oracle".

3 posted on 03/01/2004 7:50:02 AM PST by Jack Black

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To: xsysmgr

You know what the difference is between God and Larry Ellison?

God, doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.

4 posted on 03/01/2004 7:52:05 AM PST by AreaMan

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