Oracle Corp is a little embarrassed to have announced its own Notes-killer application at the same time as it announcing that it would be working with Lotus Development Corp to make its products compatible with Notes: according to Reuter, Andre Biovert, senior vice-president of world-wide marketing for Oracle said the announcement of a line of the Notes-killer software was a mistake in retrospect, but Oracle will continue to market its own products – To say that one will have precedence over the other at this point would be wrong, Biovert said, But right now, I can tell you that what I feel is that a combination of Oracle and a combination of Lotus is what they’re asking for; Biovert decided to roll out Oracle Documents despite the impending agreement with Lotus but now says That was a judgement call – I made a mistake; it’s done; I apologise; let’s move on, he said.
