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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (15760)	1/20/2000 12:18:00 PM
From: James Sinclair	Read Replies (1) of 54805

MSFT will certainly nibble away at the low end, but I haven't seen any sign of them even remotely being able to compete at the high end, certainly not anytime soon. Agree 100%. On the high end SQL Server has the added disadvantage of being available only on NT. I think most developers of enterprise class databases at least want the OPTION of hosting their databases on Unix. FWIW, I was talking with a pretty high powered consultant at a data warehousing conference last fall, and he told me his new favorite database was actually IBM's DB2. His claim was that IBM had added a lot of performance enhancements for large databases, and were pricing the product very aggressively. Given the success IBM is having marketing e-commerce front end software, I wouldn't be surprised if DB2 is showing up as the back end of a lot of those systems.

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