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Oracle's US$5.3bn ingestion of MICROS, a provider of hardware, software and services to the hospitality and retail industries, looks to be complete as Big Red has announced the acquisition has spawned a new Oracle Hospitality Global Business Unit. The new team looks to have added Oracle's cloud and mobile bits to the mix, so …

  1. Rob 5

    It sounds like a hiding to nothing, but...

    ... there may be something to be said for half-assed automation. I dropped one of my regular hotels (a Sheraton in Albuquerque, fwiw) when the wierdo night manager's unpredictable oscillations between over familiarity and authoritarian standoffishness became too irritating to deal with.

    OTOH, perhaps an alternative to automating jobs to the extent that everyone performs them equally badly might be to hire people who are capable of performing them well?

  2. P. Lee
    Coat

    May I take your coat?

    I thought they were talking about their customers' coats. And shirts.

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