[itswindy]

Andreesen pointed out recently, it was pretty common ten years ago for startups to sink tons of cash into Oracle

And Andreessen should be listened in this field because.... ? Serious corporations go for IBM, Oracle, SAP and the likes. They want stability and someone to show up and fix when things go wrong. Most of the 'startups' Marc is talking about, will be not be here 5 years from now.

What was Marc's last good investment? Ning or Groupon?

[mikeryan]

Skype, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Jawbone and Box.net are all in the Andreeson Horowitz portfolio. He seems to be doing fine.

Of note, he's also on the HP board of directors

[itswindy]

Skype, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Jawbone and Box.net are all in the Andreeson Horowitz portfolio. He seems to be doing fine.

He bought FB way too late than most others. What valuation did he buy in Zynga, Twitter etc than we'll talk? Jut because they're 'hot' now doesn't mean that they'll make him money later.

[freejack]

His point remains accurate regardless of his investing prowess. Startups aren't investing in Oracle licenses today and they were 10 years ago.

[hello_moto]

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Google, Apple, Facebook are all using Oracle albeit not for their main consumer-facing product but more for internal systems that performs e-Commerce functionality.

[scommab]

If by Oracle you mean heavily modified version of mysql, then yes. Or if you mean Java, then yes.

But if you mean any Oracle technologies that need to be licensed, then no.

[freejack]

I don't know, but based on your statement, I'd guess that they each probably have a few licenses for enterprise-grade apps. I don't think that changes the analysis that the market is moving on from what Oracle is selling.

[crag]

Google and Apple? Are you sure about this?

[hello_moto]

http://easyoradba.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/apples-oracle-dat...

Check my above reply for Google.