[quote=captcha]The meme on the notoriously reliable slashdot is how Hurd got the HP numbers up by decimating their R&D budget and selling the seed corn.[/quote]

Yeah, but that’s exactly what Oracle needs to do and eliminate the waste. Glad I’m not in enterprise software development anymore. It’s going to be a mess in that industry for years to come…But consolidation is absolutely what is necessary….Too many companies doing too many things. And there’s plenty of consolidation that needs to happen at Oracle among

Peoplesoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, Oracle Apps (before all the acquistion), BEA, Sun, Portal. I’m sure there’s other things Oracle swallowed that I forget.

There isn’t anything “innovative” in the enterprise app space as of right now that IT/tech shops are screaming that they need. They just need everything to work well together, which up until recently hasn’t been possible with so many diferent companies running their own turf… Now with Oracle dominating the market and have both a hardware+enterprise software solution that can be bundled together, that will be interesting. Probably is that if they really put the screws on a company like IBM or SAP, there won’t be that many competitors which will be bad news for customers in the future. IBM ultimately made a huge mistake by not attempting to acquire sun.