How Oracle trashes the companies it buys
A cautionary tale for BEA, the software company Larry Ellison is trying to add to his Oracle-housed collection: When Oracle's integration teams sweep through, they obliterate all traces of the prior company. Take, for example, Siebel, the sales-management software company Oracle gobbled up in 2005. Writes a tipster:
Our company just moved into the old Siebel campus in San Mateo, which has been empty since Oracle relocated the remaining employees. The only thing left of Siebel on the campus is shown in the attached photo.