As the first day of Oracle OpenWorld 2015 drew to a close, expectations for the rest of the event and the announcements that might be made were bubbling over on a variety of topics, with some of the highest excitement centered on possible responses to the Dell-EMC merger, how Oracle might handle AWS’ expanding footprint and the opportunities of converged infrastructure.

John Furrier, Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed these topics and more, touching on points from presentations that had already been made and making informed speculations about the keynote addresses still to come at Oracle OpenWorld 2015.

Changing times

Furrier sparked off the roundtable conversation on a bold note by declaring this to be “the end of the client-server era as we know it.” With a number of services competing to move customer databases to cloud services and storage, on-premise servers are encountering more challenges to their entrenchment on a virtually daily basis.

But as Gracely noted, the biggest difficulty for these data management companies may not be each other. “I think for us, the biggest thing we’re looking at is… they’re all essentially competing with status quo IT,” he said, though Oracle’s status as a big player gives it more leverage against these slow-change markets.

Building the ecosystem

Miniman felt that deep integration was one of Oracle’s biggest strengths in this regard, and Furrier agreed, putting forth the idea that “Oracle could actually win everything.” He moved on to point out that “Oracle seems to be going beyond Oracle,” possibly with the goal of becoming an enabling platform for applications across the board.

With an expected big Internet of Things play, some form of response to the Dell-EMC merger news and treatment of Amazon as a primary competitor, all three theCUBE hosts were eager to hear Oracle’s plans for the future.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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