Lots going on at Oracle …
Although all of the messages from Oracle are that things are going well, it seems that a lot of changes are going on at the database giant. Just the news since the first of the year indicates that something is going on.

When looking at the Oracle home page, its easy to see that they are looking to move beyond being “just a database company.” (As of today its talking about showing you Oracle Web Conferencing!) They have to do something. The Open Source database servers are coming … MySQL and PostgreSQL … and how do you compete with free?

Some of the recent articles, to me, indicate something is being felt … big time. “Oracle CFO to leave post, become chairman“, “Ellison: No need for wall-to-wall Oracle“, “Oracle CEO, CFO to preplan stock sales“, and “Oracle ships 10g database, cuts price” … all of these show that they are reacting to market pressures … IMHO.

It will be interesting to see how Oracle leverages its installed base, and where it goes next.

Oracle ships 10g database, cuts price. The database heavyweight ships the Unix versions of its much-anticipated 10g database, matches Microsoft on pricing and cuts the cost of its clustering features. [CNET News.com – Front Door]