Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

It’s leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week.

Oracle is jumping into the marketing fray following a summer in which its two major competitors, SAP and Microsoft, both trotted out their respective strategies for market domination. Microsoft was the first to jump, dragging its partners to the summery beauty of Houston for its Worldwide Partner Conference. SAP jumped next, holding a two-day summit in Boston that provided a massive core dump for its Business Objects and mid-market strategies, and in the process cut my summer vacation in…

Bron: ZDNet