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by mrb
5741 days ago
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Oracle's strategy seems to be: (1) Don't bother investing too much in R&D or figuring out the next big technology, just buy companies that are alread profitable (to name a few: Sun, BEA, Hyperion, Sieble, Innobase, PeopleSoft...). (2) Immediately execute massive layoffs to increase profits even more. And suck every dollar possible out of the business for a couple years. (3) After a while, the profits will start decreasing, but slowly enough (due to market inertia) that they have time to rinse and repeat. Go back to step 1. Sometimes, Oracle will get lucky and be able to keep running a business good enough that the profits will somewhat be stable enough for years. |
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don't know about the rest in your list, can you specify what do you mean saying "profitable" in application to Sun?