{"id":24,"date":"2005-04-29T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=24"},"modified":"2005-04-29T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T20:10:46","slug":"ellisons_binge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Ellison&#8217;s binge continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgcarr.com\/digital_renderings\/archives\/sons_of_dracula.shtml\">wrote<\/a> that Oracle, after devouring Retek a couple of weeks ago, would soon be hungry again, I hadn&#8217;t anticipated just how soon &#8220;soon&#8221; would be. It&#8217;s now being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeal.com\/NASApp\/cs\/CS?pagename=NYT&#038;c=TDDArticle&#038;cid=1114711405774\">reported<\/a> that Oracle has opened talks to buy Siebel Systems, the struggling maker of software for managing customer information. Unless SAP or Microsoft tries to muscle in &#8211; unlikely, but not impossible &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing this is a done deal. I can&#8217;t wait to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2001\/09\/27\/taleofthetape_3.html\">archenemies<\/a> Larry Ellison and Tom Siebel shake hands and heap praise on each other. I&#8217;m guessing Ellison will be wearing the bigger smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Oracle in talks to buy Siebel, the consolidation of the software industry is now in overdrive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}