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To: syborg who wrote (4406)	12/11/1997 8:27:00 PM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (1) of 19080

Oracle is not forcing you to buy their server either. I would speculate that practically all of the NC sales to date have been for units manufactured by other companies (RCA, Acorn, etc., etc.). Oracle is using the "Network in a Box" as a kind of starter package. It will probably be (no, we're not there yet) the vehicle for Oracle to sell to small businesses and the educational market. If Oracle's NCA (Network Computing Architecture) takes off, there are going to be a whole lot of servers out there built to the NCA reference platform specification. Those servers are going to need a high-powered database to maintain all of the user configuration information, data, etc. that used to reside on a PC's hard drive. Can you think of a company that would have an interest in supplying such a database?? The hardware revenue from NCs (IMHO) will never amount to much of anything for Oracle. The license/support/service revenue for the OS and database is where the money is at. -Michael

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