Thursday, February 23, 2006
BBC NEWS | Business | In the software crusher
BBC NEWS Business In the software crusher: "Oracle, the US software and database giant, has a tried and tested policy for dealing with uppity rivals: it buys them.
Size is not an issue. Huge firms like Peoplesoft and Siebel have all succumbed to Oracle's advances.
So will Salesforce.com be the next takeover target? 'In this case, I think it would be more fun to crush them,' says Charles Phillips, the president of Oracle.
SALESFORCE.COM
Headquarter: San Francisco
Founded: 1999
Staff: 680
Customers: 20,500
On-demand users: 399,000
Annual sales: $309m
Net profit: $28.5m
Earnings data for financial year to January 2006
Check Salesforce.com's share price
Getting up Oracle's nose is Salesforce.com's founder and boss Marc Benioff, himself a former top executive at Oracle. "
Size is not an issue. Huge firms like Peoplesoft and Siebel have all succumbed to Oracle's advances.
So will Salesforce.com be the next takeover target? 'In this case, I think it would be more fun to crush them,' says Charles Phillips, the president of Oracle.
SALESFORCE.COM
Headquarter: San Francisco
Founded: 1999
Staff: 680
Customers: 20,500
On-demand users: 399,000
Annual sales: $309m
Net profit: $28.5m
Earnings data for financial year to January 2006
Check Salesforce.com's share price
Getting up Oracle's nose is Salesforce.com's founder and boss Marc Benioff, himself a former top executive at Oracle. "
