I asked the panel to list the companies that would certainly be around in the future — and those that wouldn't be.... There was some disagreement about Oracle. Microsoft and Oracle said that Oracle would survive; Apache said it wouldn't. I also asked which companies would be dead. The panel agreed that it would be Apple, Sun and Novell.
The Future of Transparent Computing: A Comdex Wrap-Up in Tech News World (24 November 2003)