Comments on: Oracle woes add up to more than a slacker salesforce http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/oracle-woes-add-up-to-more-than-a-slacker-salesforce/ Sun, 19 May 2013 10:04:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Niall Mc Phillips http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/oracle-woes-add-up-to-more-than-a-slacker-salesforce/#comment-1322692 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=622858#comment-1322692 Very interesting article. Add to this the fact that lightweight, agile development is running rings around the traditional heavy development methodologies that surround a lot of Oracle’s applications. In terms of delivering what the user needs quickly and cost-effectively these approches really work well – and more and more companies are realising this.

Oracle does have one sparkling jewel in this category though – Oracle Application Express. But, of course, Oracle salespeople never mention this because it’s bundled with the database (as in “free”) and therefore doesn’t generate any commissions for them.

]]> By: Antoine Hepburn http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/oracle-woes-add-up-to-more-than-a-slacker-salesforce/#comment-1322411 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:02:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=622858#comment-1322411 To understand all that goes on behind the scenes at Oracle, I cannot recommend enough an excellent book, “High-tech planet” written by a former Oracle sales executive. It is a funny, terrific and insightful account of what hides behind headlines-grabbing stock and revenue figures. It describes in detail the business atmosphere at Oracle, its sales culture plus a host of shenanigans (financial, fraud, sex etc. ) that will have you shake your head in disbelief unless you work or worked for Oracle. In which case you’ll just nod and say, “wow, this guy is saying out loud what we are all whispering and scared somebody will hear us.”

I got an education reading this book, as well as an understanding of what Oracle’s future prospects are. I also now have a better grasp of what to do and what NOT to do to manage a business.

The first few chapters can be sampled for free here: http://amzn.to/czf0qw

]]> By: Nico http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/oracle-woes-add-up-to-more-than-a-slacker-salesforce/#comment-1322357 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:52:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=622858#comment-1322357 It will be interesting to see how the big vendors adapt to the changing landscape. At this stage it seems as if there strategy is focused more on buying startups and create a hype around “now we also do it” rather than a more customer focused approach as to what will be best for the customer (from a technology and price point)

]]> By: pas http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/oracle-woes-add-up-to-more-than-a-slacker-salesforce/#comment-1322186 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:00:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=622858#comment-1322186 This is SPOT ON!

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