{"id":359,"date":"2007-10-10T10:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2007-10-10T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:41:53","slug":"charles-fitzgerald-oracle-will-buy-salesforcecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/359-charles-fitzgerald-oracle-will-buy-salesforcecom.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles Fitzgerald: Oracle will buy Salesforce.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platformonomics.com\/TheMuchMisunderstoodLarryEllison.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">thoughtful post<\/a> on Fitzgerald&#8217;s Platformonomics blog. I am personally guilty of thinking too much about technology and not enough about the bottom line; this kind of analysis is a useful corrective, though bear in mind that it comes from a competitor to both companies.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that Salesforce.com is an Oracle company at heart, a point that has been made to me several times when I have talked to its spokespeople. It is a platform for database applications, and the database is &#8230; you guessed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1b7ca3bb-b66c-409d-a494-0049fa68e986\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/oracle\" rel=\"tag\">oracle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/salesforce.com\" rel=\"tag\">salesforce.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/charles%20fitzgerald\" rel=\"tag\">charles fitzgerald<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this thoughtful post on Fitzgerald&#8217;s Platformonomics blog. I am personally guilty of thinking too much about technology and not enough about the bottom line; this kind of analysis is a useful corrective, though bear in mind that it comes from a competitor to both companies. It is true that Salesforce.com is an Oracle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/359-charles-fitzgerald-oracle-will-buy-salesforcecom.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Fitzgerald: Oracle will buy Salesforce.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}