Oracle/SAP Call me Vader

Larry Ellison’s campaign to consolidate software has just become even more aggressive. It wasn’t enough that the boss of Oracle led the biggest hostile merger ever in the sector when he took over competitor PeopleSoft. That led to him being branded as «evil». He now is attempting to break up German software group SAP’s agreed merger with US firm Retek with a higher bid. And Oracle hints at more and bigger mergers within a year in the overpopulated software sector. With Microsoft going «softly, s...