Larry Ellison – interview with ex-CEO of Motorola

Larry Ellison argued that the reason behind the Sun acquisition is to move into the systems business. He believes that the tech industry treats customers like “computer hobbyists.” Customers are forced to buy components – servers, storage, switches, databases, app servers, applications….- from a long list of vendor and to then spend vast sums integrating systems to address a given application. His goal is to leverage Sun to create systems – billing systems, airline reservations systems….where engineers optimize the integration not customers and service providers. He envisions building the successor to Tom Watson Jr’s IBM, which he views as the most successful enterprise company of all time.
(Link: Larry Ellison – interview with ex-CEO of Motorola)