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High maintenance in the software industry

One source of potential pressure on enterprise software companies is their ability to hang onto maintenance contracts. Oracle, for instance, derives 45% of its revenues from maintenance agreements. In fact, a recent piece in Forbes suggested that this is one area that might be attacked by competitors. It pointed to...

Tags: Enterprise software, Oracle Corp., software

Blog posts 2005-09-16

The oracle of SOA

One Forrester Research analyst told me recently that he thinks Oracle -- which touts a vaguely defined SOA vision of business "fusion" -- is possibly two years behind SAP in terms of thought leadership and architectural development. Well, Oracle no surprise would suggest otherwise. According to fellow ZDNet blogger David...

Tags: SOA, Oracle Corp., Java Server Faces

Blog posts 2005-06-27

Software war

One of the key flashpoints in the growth of/war over SOA will be in the enterprise software world. Key players to watch: Oracle; SAP; and Microsoft. Now, we have SAP Chief Executive Officer Henning Kagermann promising to drive the "industrialization of the software industry" as it puts all its applications...

Tags: SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG

Blog posts 2005-02-01

Paradigms lost

Well, the week may have started with the announcement that Oracle would acquire PeopleSoft. However, Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, has provocatively stated that "eBay will someday buy Oracle." O'Reilly's facetious point is that the interconnected, globalWeb is enabling a new power shift that tends to...

Tags: software, O'Reilly, eBay Inc., O'Reilly & Associates

Blog posts 2004-12-15