Two Buck Chuck

"The connoisseurs may cringe, the snobs may even sob, but the judges have spoken: California's best chardonnay costs less than $3.

Charles Shaw Chardonnay, better known as "Two Buck Chuck," beat hundreds of other wines and was named the top prize in a prestigious tasting competition in California."

ABC News

There is a revolution going on in most industries. More efficient airlines, the $ 2,000 car, the $ 100 (well ok, $ 175) laptop, the 15c a gb a month amazon storage. Business 2.0 has a whole issue focused on the next generation of "disruptors" in different industries.

Against this backdrop, I see my friend Charles ("Chuck") Phillips at Oracle mouth off about SAP and R&D. He calls SAP legacy conveniently ignoring that 3/4 of Oracle revenues come from 40 year old relational database technology. His acquired R&D is so "low intensity" that tiny competitors can release earlier and much cheaper code. Like the other Chuck above - cheaper and better.

Do either SAP or Oracle, so fixated on each other,  see the disruptions happening in their market?

Dennis Howlett's response to Charles (see at bottom of article) is "Totally Oversold Excrement".

Fred Franzia would agree. He is the owner of Bronco Wine which makes Charles Shaw and other inexpensive wines. In a recent interview, he was quoted as saying "We can grow on asphalt. Terroir don't mean shit"

Update: Phil Wainewright picks on Charles's on-demand and SaaS statements.