I really like Larry Ellison for varied reasons including his off-shore sailing and his cash flow, but he now epitomizes the previously successful enterprise that is doomed (along with Google, Microsoft, and IBM, among many others).
Below the fold are three items; first a brief commentary from Stephen E. Arnold, one of the “three amigos” (the other is William Binney) who would have liked to help Oracle; second, a coder talking about Oracle reality — a bog of legacy code; and third, an extract on NoSQL versus SQL.
Amazon is doomed as well, but first they will become a trillion dollar company and screw over hundreds of millions of people. I give them ten more years.
