Oracle breaks silence to deny 'even considering' buying Accenture

Oracle has seemingly backed away from a potential acquisition of Accenture, and is now claiming it had "never even considered it". The denial follows The Register's report last week that Oracle had brought in some bean-counters to do due diligence on a potential deal, which would of course have been an immensely bold, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Translation: "Even if you buy us, we would rather burn ourselves by the Ganges than recommend your products..."

[Anonymous Coward]

No, thats not it

it's we want to choose the best vendor kickbacks and dont want to be trapped in the vice like jaws of Oracle licencing.

[Anonymous Coward]

Should they merge I supect the following...

The word Clusterfuck will be devoted entirely and forever to the resulting entity.

I already use it for Oracle's takeover of Front Porch Digital (who gave great support BTW).

It saddens me that there is more to come.