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To: MeDroogies who wrote (7961)	7/24/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (2) of 19080

In the short term, Oracle will lose ground in the low-end (read NT) marketplace. I don't have a breakout of revenue by platform, but I can't believe that Oracle is making tons of money selling $1,299 licenses for Workgroup Server. I can see Oracle giving the software away on that platform to keep pace with Microsoft, if it comes down to that. Microsoft will be hurt when people who took the free SQL Server software and training try to scale up their applications and fail. They will reach the inevitable conclusion that Microsoft lied to them when they said that the DB server is just a commodity and that theirs is just as good as Oracle's. Some percentage (and for Oracle's sake it better be a significant percentage) of these people will realize that the combination of free and Microsoft does not necessarily mean it is the best solution. Unrelated Oracle note, see computerworld.com -Michael

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