Comments on: Oracle vs. Google

By: David Haimes

David Haimes — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:25:25 +0000

Tim

Thanks for the reply, I take your point that Google is regarded as cool and risk taking. Maybe a labs.oracle.com is a good idea, maybe you could raise this on what I think is an innovative idea from Oracle the social network connecting employees and customers mix.oracle.com ?

By: Tim DiChiara

Tim DiChiara — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:04:58 +0000

David (#11),

Yes, the title of the post was designed to “catch the eye” — I plead guilty. However, my point is not that Oracle and Google are equivalent (although Google is more than an “ad agency,” as you know), but that it’s a company that has a very innovative reputation. I’d love to see Oracle have a labs.oracle.com site that showcases its experiments and risk-taking ideas. I do think Oracle has some innovative and high quality products — your own Financials product is certainly the latter — but does it have that “cool” reputation? That was the admittedly minor (and superficial!) point was trying to address.

–Tim

By: Sangram

Sangram — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:26:14 +0000

A platform would always be more successful than content in a MASS economy…

Its a requirement of satisfying the requirements of all the chairs.

Looks like Google has a bigger challenges than Oracle.
They require a pioneering effort of sorts.
Does Google have this bandwidth?

Sangram

By: David Haimes

David Haimes — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:47:10 +0000

I think this post is designed to provoke debate argument and maybe controversy by putting two large tech companies (is Google a tech company or an ad agency?) in the title up against each other.

Anyway it worked, I put my opinion in my blog this week.

http://davidhaimes.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/comparing-google-and-oracle/

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:33:43 +0000

Oracle is in the midst of a market consolidation campaign. I find it hard to identify the unique positioning among competition. For me it is still the capabilities and operating efficiency which define the competitive advantage. It might be really hard to improve the broad spectrum of functionality and features to the degree, individual competitors do in their shared markets. It seems to be all about getting bigger – grow or die. Doing that to the risk of losing the real competitive advantages – and missing the real customer needs while replicating most of the functions others already have 2nd and 3rd generations of. Other companies (like Si*mens e.g.) who tried to accomplish that in their industries failed.

IMHO there will NEVER be one plattform in any business scenario – so focus on interoperability and open-source (plus open and abundant information) and you can beat any competitor in the field of plattform suppliers.

AND – over 90% of all implementations are customer or 3rd party driven anyways – honestly – how many “out-of-the-box” implementations are out there? See why SAP is still successful …

Kind greetings from Germany
Sebastian

By: Faizan

Faizan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:40:28 +0000

i think google takes more risk compare to oracle.
whether oracle survives or not thats not a question to ask or to dicuss no body have doubt that oracle must survive.but it is also a fact that oracle is late in launching some of its product like Oracle VM.
With reference to micrsoft oracle not paying proper attention to its benchmark products oracle forms.Obviously dot net taken up the market so here oracle loss in battle of Vb.net and Jdeveloper!!

By: Lexy Martin

Lexy Martin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:03:31 +0000

Take a look at WebCenter Suite and how Oracle is using this with its human capital management applications to foster employee engagement and productivity. Do a search on: web center suite employee engagement oracle to see a short article on this. That will also lead you to the various components

By: Patrick Hogan

Patrick Hogan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:46:44 +0000

If there is to be a battle between Oracle and Google it will be to win the “hearts and minds” of developers. Right now the battle is going to the Google side because of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).

Look at all the top Web 2.0 companies (Facebook, Yahoo, Google, YouTube, eBay…) they all rely on LAMP as the foundation. Oracle may have won the enterprise battle, except for SAP, but there is a vase difference between the developers that work with the enterprise (SOA, BPEL..) and the typically under 30 year olds building Web 2.0.

Because of its acquisitions, Oracle has more than 26 different code sets that it must maintain (JD Edwards, PeopleSOft, Seibel…) and re-code to fit into the Oracle stack.

By: Smart Indian Computer Programmer

Smart Indian Computer Programmer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:17:17 +0000

Prsonally I feel that all the Google Apps are nothing but hype and the widget and the customer level widgets displayed in labs.google.com are childish at their best like the Google Desktop search etc when you have windows doing that for you why in the earth would you want to install that.

With the advent of affordable GPS Google Earth and Maps seem like legacy , even then Yahoo is prooving to be better.Google will lead the crash vis a vis its stock price

By: Mike King

Mike King — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:08:39 +0000

I don’t see much innovation in Oracle’s offerings. I do see complexity, cost & bugs. If Oracle were innovative they’d to the following:
1.) Improve software quality by an order of magnitude. Sigma what?
2.) Automate patching (11g will fall short again).
3.) Reduce complexity. People don’t care about all the functionality.
4.) Change licensing to the socket for EE to match Microsoft.