Start of a Trend

This should help people understand Oracle's current acquisition frenzy. With the increasing acceptance of Open source products it's hard to see any long term future growth in the proprietary database and Operating System arena. Ellison understands that hence the spreading of Oracle's customer base into other areas such as ERP systems where he can try to hang onto Oracle as the DB of choice to power these things.

The next generation of Enterprises, whilst today only start-ups, are now running L.A.M.P based Open source solutions. What happened to Sun Micro$ystems after DOT.COM is where the Oracle, Sybase and the rest are going - slowly but surely.

Long live the king