Oracle (NASDAQ: NYSE: ORCL ) is still the world's largest seller of enterprise software. It has more than 400,000 big and small corporate clients across 140 countries. It has a solid history of annual growth for the last three decades. The company is the undisputed leader in providing corporate database management to the biggest corporations in the world. The company's recent diversification toward cloud-based and hardware-based services has dampened investors' enthusiasm for it. Oracle's move toward creating revenue streams outside its proven core Software as a Service expertise is seen as a high-risk act by many. Based on recent analysts' stock reports, majority of them rated Oracle as not a good "short-term investment." Risk Assessment Oracle itself admitted in its annual report that it is vulnerable to several risk factors.