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To: alydar who wrote (16283)	10/25/2001 11:33:45 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) of 19080

I can't figure out whether the "increased competition" they are worried about is IBM's products getting better (which I think is unlikely) or IBM paying people to use the products (which they did with their app server to win the eBay deal). If the latter, I suppose that IBM can make it harder for everyone for a while, but there is plenty of evidence that the cost of ownership of DB2 isn't that affected by the cost of the software itself, and I believe that ORCL makes good use of this evidence. (And Websphere is reputedly so bad that even IBM could go broke bribing people to use it.)

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