Oracle apps: an innovation free zone since 2006?

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add the numbers up

I challenge Karen and Oracle to list the major "innovations" it has delivered in the last 5 years.

If they add up to more than $ 2 billion in development costs, I will give Oracle more credit than Google and Apple and amazon on my New Florence innovation blog. Against this Oracle has collected over $ 75 billion from customers over the same time.

As I mentioned on my blog Oracle EBS 12, probably one of the biggest pieces of code they have delivered could not have cost more than 100 million. And has been adopted by less than 5% of its customers. Most everything else is tweaks and in the meantime they have acquired plenty of code to harvest from, offshored lots of development - so internal development costs have declined nicely.

Now you could make the point customers do not expect much innovation from Oracle - they expect industrial strength stability. Then I would like to see how Oracle has improved its code quality, service SLAs, quality of implementations - CMM, Six Sigma, better SLAs etc etc

We are talking $ 75 billion here over 5 years. That's more than what Obama is taking heat for in many line items in his stimulus package. We are talking some real money here.

Where is the value for that spend in innovation, in base service etc?

Posted by: vmirchan   Posted on: 02/25/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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