Re: SMH on Salesforce-Oracle

On 6/26/13 11:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The issue with Salesforce is the length of the deal --- 9 years.  It is
> hard to call that just "maintain a relationship with Oracle".

There are two major problems with this thinking:

-It assumes there is only one Oracle application inside of Salesforce.
Just at a very high level, in addition to their namesake CRM application
there's also their cloud database at http://database.com/ and that
announcement was filled with cloudy stuff.

-A gigantic database installation can easily take 9 years to migrate to
a new platform, before every instance is converted.

The Salesforce/Oracle announcement reeks of co-marketing announcement.
It isn't necessarily connected to their infrastructure plans at all.
The real about-face going on there is Oracle's changed stance on the
whole "cloud database" concept.  That topic is a much more interesting
one for this advocacy list to me.

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