Oracle, every mention
12 scenes (2024), the whole family · ← back to Oracle
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2024 anyone David Rosenthal 35Ben Gilbert 34Steve Ballmer 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Oracle comes up
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 38:25 Ben Gilbert If you go back two, three, four years, you're gonna have to go to Oracle, you're gonna have to go to Microsoft, you're gonna have to buy, like, enterprise grade, super proprietary systems to do this.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 49:18 Ben Gilbert There's real competition in the enterprise at this point, Sun, Oracle, but in terms of what your point is, the consumer technology landscape, yeah, they had ultimate power.
- ▶ 1:39:35 Ben Gilbert They were fighting Sun, IBM, Oracle.
- ▶ 1:39:41 David Rosenthal Oracle, etc.
- ▶ 1:42:44 David Rosenthal In 1998, Microsoft takes SQL server, and it was the first real enterprise ready database that can rival IBM and mainframe databases, Oracle databases.
- ▶ 4:17:22 David Rosenthal I would throw Oracle in there too, but yeah.
- ▶ 4:17:24 Ben Gilbert Yeah, Oracle.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 58:29 David Rosenthal Were you running, like, a Oracle system?
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 40:47 David Rosenthal Other companies in the partner network include Oracle, American Express, MasterCard, Accenture, and many more, including, friends of the show, Modern Treasury.
- ▶ 3:38:33 Ben Gilbert Oracle.
- ▶ 3:38:36 Ben Gilbert And Oracle had a nice pop, which actually helped Microsoft price a little bit higher in their IPO.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:22:36 David Rosenthal And like, yes, you can build a big company on top of, or underneath Microsoft or Oracle or Amazon or Salesforce or Google, but they're the ones with the infrastructure.