Comments on: Oracle VM http://www.dannorris.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:10:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan Norris http://www.dannorris.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Dan Norris Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:05:26 +0000 http://www.dannorris.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm/#comment-744 I'm not sure that this event would be the trigger for saying they're risking overdiversification. After all, they've been on quite a shopping spree lately. However, I agree that this is new territory and most of the acquisitions have fit into areas where they've already had some presence. It's a big company, though, so I imagine they can handle more than one thing at a time. I didn't think that OEL was being widely adopted and still don't, but it is *new* (relatively) and such things take a while to "catch on". The real evidence will be to watch how much of the marketing and development resources are poured into Oracle VM from here forward. If it ends up as Oracle Collaboration Suite (haven't seen that on oracle.com homepage in quite a while), I'm not sure it will be successful. Like they say in the medical field...the next few [months] will be critical. I’m not sure that this event would be the trigger for saying they’re risking overdiversification. After all, they’ve been on quite a shopping spree lately. However, I agree that this is new territory and most of the acquisitions have fit into areas where they’ve already had some presence. It’s a big company, though, so I imagine they can handle more than one thing at a time.

I didn’t think that OEL was being widely adopted and still don’t, but it is *new* (relatively) and such things take a while to “catch on”. The real evidence will be to watch how much of the marketing and development resources are poured into Oracle VM from here forward. If it ends up as Oracle Collaboration Suite (haven’t seen that on oracle.com homepage in quite a while), I’m not sure it will be successful. Like they say in the medical field…the next few [months] will be critical.

]]> By: Charles Schultz http://www.dannorris.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm/comment-page-1/#comment-743 Charles Schultz Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:47:55 +0000 http://www.dannorris.com/2007/11/12/oracle-vm/#comment-743 I thought that was quite interesting myself. How come I have this sinking feeling that Oracle is diversifying a bit too much? A bad feeling about trying to do too much at one time? When is Oracle Desktop coming out? =) I thought that was quite interesting myself. How come I have this sinking feeling that Oracle is diversifying a bit too much? A bad feeling about trying to do too much at one time? When is Oracle Desktop coming out? =)

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