business, which accounted for $2.5 billion of the firm’s $9.3 billion 1999 revenues.
Second to SAP in the enterprise software market, Oracle applications serve over 5,000
customers in 140 countries. Oracle has been a leader in refocusing its ERP solutions
around the Internet, and it launched a barrage of electronic-commerce and Internet-based
business-to-business software applications while the other JBOPS companies were slow
to react to the changing marketplace. Further, Oracle was the first JBOPS company to
integrate front-office applications with its ERP offering.