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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (185)	8/19/2002 7:40:49 AM
From: dybdahl	of 19790

I believe it's much simpler: Oracle's products are not comprehensible to the average user, whereas Microsoft's are. If Coca Cola had a problem with their products, the press would write about it. If Siemens had, the press wouldn't. Being a standard is not the issue here. PR is a discipline that must be handled well by companies that want to sell products to consumers. Microsoft isn't good at handling PR outside USA, which gives all international press a good reason to write about negative issues regarding Microsoft products. Oracle is a business 2 business only thing, don't compare their PR performance to Microsoft's. Microsoft's task is much harder. Dybdahl.

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