Why Ellison wants to take on Google

Why would any company want to go out of its way to compete with Google? That's precisely what Oracle is doing with a new program designed to search corporate networks because, CEO Larry Ellison says, "what Google does not do well is search private data."
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But even if that's true, enterprise companies such as Oracle don't have exactly the best track record when competing with aggressive Web players. Companies such as Novell and Lotus, for example, lost an enormous lead in the internal message market to the likes of instant messengers from Yahoo, AOL and MSN.

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