Re: Oracle buys Hyperion

Okay, I thought there used to be a great product -- Essbase -- a database for Excel.
It did one thing and did it well.
But then Essbase was bought by Hyperion. I think they even lost the great name. Some product managers got ahold of it and tried to "productize" it. Spent a lot of money trying to merge all its features into a whole spectrum of products. Problem is you would read the product literature and you couldn't tell what you needed to buy to do the tasks you needed it to accomplish. I stopped hearing people say what a great product it was.

     I get the sinking feeling of "here we go again" Yet another corporate acquisition. Yet another group of product managers that will sit around and try to figure out how to plug all the pieces together in the vain hope of producing some product coherence.

    On paper, these acquisitions sound great. For $3.3 billion we acquire XX percent market share, which amortized over a decade is worth $$$$$. Not always so good for the customer.

I wish them well
Dennis

On 3/2/07, Clarke, Andrew <andrew.clarke_at_logicacmg.com> wrote:
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> >> > don't know if it is good or bad but uncle Larry has gone shopping.
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> >> As long as he doesn't buy Microsoft....
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> Unbreakable Windows? Surely an idea whose time has come....
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> Cheers, APC
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> On 03/01/2007 09:03:57 AM, rjamya wrote:
> > don't know if it is good or bad but uncle Larry has gone shopping.
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> As long as he doesn't buy Microsoft....
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