Wednesday, January 31, 2007
| Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Between the Lines ZDNet.com: "However, Phillips seemed to realize that customers aren't going to be a rush to fuse their applications into one Oracle suite. To that end, Oracle also touted Oracle On-Demand where it'll host its applications and combine them for you. 'Our on-demand business is important for us. For anyone concerned about the applications upgrade process we have an easy solution–we'll do it for you.'
Oracle also wasn't shy about knocking SAP. In fact, the first knock took all of about three minutes. An executive went through the attendee roster and noted there was one person named Mark from SAP. He asked him to raise his hand and then invited him on stage for a better seat. The punchline: 'It's ok we're an open company.'
Phillips came back to the SAP kicking later when he was talking about middleware. 'We have more Oracle Fusion customers in the SAP installed base than SAP has Netweaver customers. We try to modernize them a bit and help them out where we can. '"
Oracle also wasn't shy about knocking SAP. In fact, the first knock took all of about three minutes. An executive went through the attendee roster and noted there was one person named Mark from SAP. He asked him to raise his hand and then invited him on stage for a better seat. The punchline: 'It's ok we're an open company.'
Phillips came back to the SAP kicking later when he was talking about middleware. 'We have more Oracle Fusion customers in the SAP installed base than SAP has Netweaver customers. We try to modernize them a bit and help them out where we can. '"
