Marc Andreessen: The "Clock Is Ticking" On Oracle

I view Oracle's customers as old, big and dumb. Although it personally scared me to see them acquire MySQL I thought that I understood it.

I thought that they were going to use MySQL to get a new series of leads so they could target companies as they began to outgrow it. But they seemed to have failed to execute which has opened the door for a lot of companies trying to steal that market. Not just the NoSQL guys but companies like YCombinator's ReThinkDB.

Right now it seems that Oracle's strategy is to buy other old line enterprise software companies whose products their current customers are using and jack up service fees. Larry Ellison is a smart guy but imho that isn't a long time sustainable strategy.

cloud computing companies like amazon use oracle in their backend. http://www.itinfomag.com/cloud-computing/amazon-rds-will-inc... Andreessen is in the the board of HP , which is positioning itself to become a competitor to oracle.I would take his comments with a grain of salt.