Schroer believes a consolidation is being driven by clients like Oracle and Home Depot, which increasingly want to deal with one provider worldwide, much like the trend that consolidated the advertising industry in the 1990s.

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Schroer believes a consolidation is being driven by clients like Oracle and Home Depot (nyse: HD - news - people ), which increasingly want to deal with one provider worldwide, much like the trend that consolidated the advertising industry in the 1990s.

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To ram home the message, Oracle has this month released Oracle 8i, which is designed to be not just a database, but a complete platform for Internet computing.

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