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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (8996)1/27/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: MJ  Read Replies (1) of 14631
 
Chaz,

Not sure what the US market is like, but there are dozens of small players pitching for the internet site business of small/medium companies over here in Oz. Add that to companies like OpenMarket, and big players like our telco Telstra (with a household name and a high-speed cable to the door) and it's a pretty competitive market with low margins.

Also, for Informix to focus on this market would reduce margins and play straight into Microsoft's hands. Informix's focus is to partner with the web developers- focus on database strength.

It will be interesting to see how web sites come on- if there is a major database market there now that sites are becoming more transaction based. I guess a lot of sites will simply upgrade existing in-house systems. For others, so far, a small database is adequate for the work-load. Will these systems scale when the big loads hit? There are still a hellava lot of very slow sites around.

Matt.
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