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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (18741)	9/25/2005 11:33:57 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

I don't expect explosive growth from the company, but I know a lot of people that work there, and the quality of the software coming out of Oracle on the server side has improved dramatically over the last few years. Their RDBMS is much better than the competition, and is really without competition at the high end. (They have to worry about MySQL for the low end, not because they made much money there, but because the low end feeds the high end and also seems to get higher over time, but they are taking this seriously.) Also, after stumbling several times in the app server market, they started paying attention to that a few years ago, and the now have a very competitive product that is still improving rapidly. I don't know much about applications, but I believe that they are finally giving that the same level of attention, and if so, I expect that they can achieve the same sort of results. I did know enough about tools and apps in the past to know that Oracle didn't care about them, and left those divisions to second-raters who were FoL's -- Friend of Larry. Many of tools groups got taken away from such an FoL a couple of years ago and folded into the app server, and now perform much better. And after the PSFT merger, several long time applications FoL's left the company -- this has made me optimistic.