Silicon Valley in Northern California is home to many of the world's largest technology companies. These include Apple, Google, Oracle, Intel, Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard.

北加州硅谷是世界上很多最大的技术公司的所在地。这些公司包括苹果，谷歌，甲骨文，英特尔，思科公司和惠普。

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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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