Short Take: Oracle to double application software sales force

Oracle announced it will double its applications software sales force to approximately 2,000 people to challenge SAP in the enterprise resource planning market. Oracle's business management software sales totaled $562 million in fiscal 1998, up 15 percent from fiscal 1997, but the database giant still trails SAP and faces stiff competition from Baan and PeopleSoft.

July 20, 1998 8:00 p.m. PT

announced it will double its applications software sales force to approximately 2,000 people to challenge SAP in the enterprise resource planning market. Oracle's business management software sales totaled $562 million in fiscal 1998, up 15 percent from fiscal 1997, but the database giant still trails SAP and faces stiff competition from Baan and PeopleSoft.