These are good points. "What was the last Oracle innovation you heard about?" - that is very good question. It is hard to believe that company with $26B (4x more than Google) in sales has no innovation.

Could it be that since oracle inventions are mainly in enterprise space and these technologies are not generally available to consumers, so they are never publicized not discussed in venues blogs and forums like this? You can only can see ad in WSJ and that is the end of the story.