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Oracle RAC has come a long way in establishing itself as a key technology in delivering unparalleled high availability and scalability solutions for Oracle databases. Forrester estimates that there are more than 1,200 customers who are currently using RAC in production, and this is likely to double in the next 12 to 18 months as enterprises look to deploy low-cost commodity servers and extend their applications to support higher availability.

Oracle may benefit from its presence as an Internet infrastructure provider as its applications and databases become more Internet centric.

Oracle kind of has the backbone to be in the hosted business, but it isn't, while Siebel already is.

Oracle is really a leader in that B2B niche, and it's made such a splash in that new niche because it's created that niche for itself, and it's doing extremely well. Obviously, if you want to time the stock, you pick it on a day when the stock price is down, but if you're a core-holding type of a buyer, Oracle should be right at the top of your list, without eyeing the price so much, if business-to-business e-commerce is your priority.

Oracle is putting pressure on the technology stocks, but the Dow was up for seven days in a row before yesterday. The market was more than due for some kind of a sell-off.

Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.

Oracle is executing very well. This validates that Oracle is a leader in consolidating the software sector. The strategy they are embarking upon is the right strategy.

Oracle is essentially trying to get rid of a competitor. This is more of a financial transaction than a technology transaction.

Oracle is doing a good job of addressing security in its products, but they haven't figured out how security fits into their internal processes and overall architecture,

Oracle is coming across as very benevolent, very interested in feedback from user groups, and very helpful in listening to customers; we feel they're going to listen to us.