Richard Williams Combine Quotations

I think it makes some sense; it's just consolidation like anything else. You take two weaker players and combine them for strength.

To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.