Software In 2005: Oracle, Sarbox, Bling

摘要

Oracle the acquirer: At the Software 2005 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., last week, Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, laid it on the line: "There's more to go, people." He was referring to Oracle's consolidation plans, and he was serving notice to the industry that the acquisitive vendor isn't finished gobbling up smaller fish in the software pond. Phillips' speech was intended to make Oracle's case as the pre-eminent enterprise software vendor, a notion that has a lot of CIOs already "buying in," Phillips said. That's because Oracle has critical mass in applications, middle-tier software, and databases, Phillips said.