Oracle sees no slowing in earnings

Strategy of doing "chubbier" deals with customers will keep per-share earnings growth at 20 percent or more, says CFO.

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Open source free software = Oracle sales going down

Hello to Ellison and CFO Oracle, have you heard of MySQL? It is a better Data base than Oracle and it is FREE. More to the point have you heard of Open Source which is making software for free or near free thus rendering companies like Oracle to the dust bin of history. OTN: our company just replaced our Oracle SQL DB with MySQL DB at savings of about $150K per year.

You know like 80% of Oracles sales come from government agencies, dont the people at the people at these government agencies
know that there is such a thing as MySQL? So they do not need to buy Oracle? Or is it that they do not care. I guess they do not care, after all it is our Tax money that they are wasting on Oracle DB when they can get MySQL DB for free or maybe they have Oracle stock too and that is real reason they are buying Oracle DB when they do not need to do so at all.

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True...

Also... remember that the government likes to spend $500 for a single hammer or toilet seat!