Inconsiderate Considerations

摘要

I was talking the other day with Damien Bean, former vice president of corporate systems at Hilton Hotels, about last week's $10.3 billion Oracle/PeopleSoft merger. Bean, a poster-child PeopleSoft user while at Hilton, summed up his thoughts on the deal in the form of an analogy: "It's Sperry buying Burroughs all over again," he said. "You've now got two fundamentally competing approaches to design and architecture and everything else. Size was a goal in and of itself, and the amalgamation of product lines was a secondary consideration."