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by hitekker 3901 days ago
What would be your opinion on Oracle?

I find it strange that the Author didn't include Oracle in the title although he talks about it at some length in the article body.

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I gave my opinion on Oracle elsewhere in this thread. Basic just is that Oracle will be fine because they're a business software company -- all the companies on this list are manufacturers of technology infrastructure products. The model through which companies acquire tech infrastructure is changing from a product model where infrastructure companies build/design differentiated products to a services model, where a much smaller number of companies are buying increasingly commoditized infrastructure hardware and selling access to it as a service.

Oracle doesn't do this; the bulk of their value comes from software that is much more difficult to replicate.