Oracle Corp president Raymond Lane stepped up to the podium to assert that the restructurings that have swept the corporate world are now fuelling demand for its database management software – What’s driving our business now is not technology but the client base – the massive reorganisation of business processes, the worldwide operations president said – We are in a software industry that is about to go through a massive restructuring (brought about by)…serving a client base that is going through restructurings, Lane continued; he said the criteria demanded by information managers at Fortune 500 companies in choosing systems software are open architecture, interoperability and ease of use; they also want flexibility, an economic advantage over old software systems and scalability, running the same database on big and small machines.
