Oracle want SBS Market

Interesting article over at Techweb on Oracle coveting the SBS market of Microsoft. Oracle wants to hit the SBS market hard it sounds like with a product that will include its app server, web server, and portal server.

Well if anyone has the deep pockets to challenge SBS it's Oracle. Competition is always good and this might be something that will drive Microsoft to make SBS even better which is always nice. However what would Oracle run on? Yep Windows Server 2003 no doubt. That's where it's hard for SMB's to justify another layer of pricing and complexity. The beauty of SBS is that the operating system and apps systems are all contained together with pretty easy management.

I see the Oracle offering as perhaps a midmarket solution for specialty applications that might be coming out with key vertical industries in mind. Hey Oracle is a giant and they might surprise us but SBS' integration sure is key right now.