By purchasing Siebel, Oracle has acquired an additional 3.4 million CRM (Customer Resource Management) users and the maintenance fees that go with that kind of installed base.

By purchasing Siebel, Oracle has acquired an additional 3.4 million CRM users and the maintenance fees that go with that kind of installed base. However, where Oracle may be able to compete with (German rival) SAP on numbers in the short term, they may have trouble competing longer term on product innovation.

Sure a car and computer are great gifts, but they also are necessities.

It's a building I would love to go to, but I don't have dementia.

Oracle is an applications company and it only makes sense that they will want to eventually move acquired customers over to their technology stack.

It's a beautiful composition. It will make for a very exciting building, but not for this purpose.

It's not that I don't love my kids more than the dogs. But more people ask to see pictures of the dogs.

I think everyone can associate with one type of dog or another. To me, Spice is perfect.