In InformationWeek’s CIOs Uncensored blog, Mary Hayes Weier reported that Larry Ellison has no interest in the SaaS trend because “there’s no money to be made there.”
Now either;
Why do I say that? Ellison is a shareholder in Netsuite, a SaaS ERP enterprise.
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Also, if Ellison is investing in SaaS, would he do anything but downplay it?
Hmmm, or to translate: “Oracle isn’t going to help legitimatize SaaS because of the risk to our existing revenue streams”. Thing is, like Microsoft, they’re eventually really not going to have any choice about the matter. Amusing that he’s invested in an SaaS player, but I suppose he could claim “well, yeah, but they’re not making any *real* money”