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Technology Stocks : OBJECT DESIGN Inc.: Bargain of the year!!
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To: jimmy c who wrote (2474)10/29/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: ahhaha  Read Replies (1) of 3194
 
Your sources are questionable. In this case it is cheaper to buy than make. That means that it is cheaper to buy Objectstore and configure it the way you want than it is to buy the company. This subject was thoroughly discussed a year ago. The consensus then was, "not likely". IBM, CA, IFMX, even MSFT, have been trotted out as potential buyers. It doesn't make sense relative to their own business strategies. CA seems to be the most likely.

What ODIS has is the Objectstore code. It has a great efficiency niche that would be essentially impossible to write around. This is especially true in video piece storage. Little by little the hybrids are being seen to be extensions of inefficiency. Scaling a hybrid is a joke. Hybrid costs to scale go up geometrically versus linearly with Objectstore. The problem for ODIS sales is that corporations prefer to wrestle with incremental additions to legacy systems via hybrid solutions rather than enter the black waters of major change. Embellishments to existing RDBMS also defer the decision. They have no immediate incentive to change, so they procrastinate.

Since they can delay, why should some company buy ODIS if there is no immediate need for Objectstore's advantage? I suggest your sources are trying to talk the stock up in order to get out more favorably.
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