This deal on the other hand is a marriage between two equally poweful yet bloated and complicated pieces of software. Oracle's strategy could not be more clear; they want to own (and get paid for) every business function that occurs above the Operating System. Whether it's managing emails, centralizing the portal information to sell, managing the customer relationship, tracking the sales process and reporting on it on the back end... they want to do it all. I wish the would concentrate a little more on the actual experiences though. Whether it's the the end user or the IT admin, the experience is just abysmal.