Larry Ellison in response to a question about buying up all the competition in the enterprise apps business
“I wish there was no competition in the application arena, but unfortunately there’s enormous competition. Everything from SAP (SAP), which is substantially larger than we are in the applications business – darn it – to a variety of clever startups in the software as a service area, to specialists in healthcare like Lawson. There’s just very broad-based competition across the applications market. Some of those companies are mature … some of those companies are brand new, clever startups. But even if we buy aggressively for the next 20 years, I’m afraid there’s still going to be more competition than we can deal with effectively.”
Well, may be he did read what I wrote here, here, here, here
