Speaking of Mark Logic
March 29, 2006
Dave Kellogg, CEO of Mark Logic, offers this comparison of Google and Oracle in his blog.
Google has one primary revenue source (advertising) and a lot of science projects for PR (e.g., Google Earth, Moon, or — believe it not — Google Mars). This is just like Oracle which, for a long time, had one working revenue source (the DBMS) and numerous science projects of its own, such as nCube, the network computer (NC), or video-on-demand…
But the big difference is once you put Oracle inside your company it is very hard to get it out. If moving an IT department from Oracle to DB2 is a liver transplant, moving a user from Google to another search engine is a hangnail. The former requires re-writes of applications, reports, and queries. The latter requires a new bookmark and perhaps a thirty-second toolbar download.
Indeed.
Posted by Bill Trippe at March 29, 2006 10:32 PM
