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Shaking Up the Market: Oracle Buys Siebel Systems

Posted September 19, 2005 | Technology |

No doubt about it, you've got to hand it to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: the most important event to take place concerning the enterprise software market since Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft is Oracle's new move to buy Siebel Systems for US $5.9 billion. Siebel is the CRM market leader. Thus, with this single acquisition, Oracle becomes the number-one CRM vendor.

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Curt Hall
Curt Hall is a Cutter Expert and a member of Arthur D. Little’s AMP open consulting network. He has extensive experience as an IT analyst covering technology and application development trends, markets, software, and services. Mr. Hall's expertise includes artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), intelligent process automation (IPA), natural language processing (NLP) and conversational computing, blockchain for business, and customer… Read More
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