Oracle VP Robert Shrimp on Enterprise Search 11
garzpacho writes "BusinessWeek interviews Robert Shrimp on the enterprise search market. Shrimp talks about about the importance of corporate search, addresses what some claim is Oracle's lateness to the arena and takes a few shots at competitors: 'Our main competition is the filing cabinet...The manila file folder is the ultimate enemy.'"
Re:Like Lifestreams? (Score:3, Insightful)
Oracle is probably the strongest player in the traditional old enterprise database market - just the style of databases that was always managed as filing cabinets. Others are strong in different "edge" application of databases - www, scheduling, fora. Great most of MySQL installs is used to serve webpages, manage phpbb, image galleries online etc. You'll hardly ever see hospital holding patient records in MySQL, a banking firm doing the customers' accounting in it, local government filing the land deeds with such. That's the Oracle's primary market. And that's the market where still paper files rule. So Oracle doesn't want to compete with other electronic databases for odd applications like factory machine driving, choices table for autopilot or blog entries storage. It's for enterprises to manage the enterprise data - customers, employees, salaries, sales, storage. And this is where paper records rule and compete with Oracle.