“We Don’t Want to Be No. 2″
March 26, 2005Oracle’s Larry Ellison discusses with BusinessWeek his plan for taking on SAP in the corporate-applications software market:
Jack Welch said unless you’re No. 1 or No. 2 in a business, you should get out. We’re No. 2 now, but we don’t want to be No. 2. We want to be No. 1. Culturally, it’s difficult for people at Oracle who are accustomed to being the leader in databases to play catch-up behind SAP. They’re a formidable company, but we have a shot at catching them.
