Oracle to Offer IM and Web Conferencing ... what am I missing?
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Another move
into the enterprise IM market that makes no sense to me. I could
see them partnering with someone to integrate a solution, but not attempting
to play catch-up and develop their own. While they did choose the
right path of XMPP and Simple (in my opinion), they could have made a phone
call to Jabber and said, "Hey man, let's have a lunch and talk about
a little product called Jab-acle"
BOSTON -- Oracle (
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best known for its database and business applications products and a certain
rival software company that it wants to buy, is planning to roll out new
instant messaging tools this year.
Oracle vice president Ramu Sunkara said the products, which will be sold as part of the Oracle Collaboration Suite, are in beta-testing mode right now and would follow the release of its Web Conferencing product. Introduced last fall, the conferencing software competes with similar collaboration tools and products from Microsoft (Quote, Chart) and WebEx (Quote, Chart).
Anyone have any thoughts on if they think Oracle stands a chance in this one being late to the game?
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On Sunday, March 7th, 2004 by Chris Miller
