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To: Mike Farrar who wrote (9068)	12/11/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: POB	Read Replies (1) of 19080

<<ORCL is NOT Microsoft>> Why would they want to be? When I can buy a 300mhz system for $699, run Linux on it for FREE and then run a FREE SQL engine such as DB2 from IBM, who in their right mind is going to run MS's SQL Server at $600 for NT Server, $1200 for SQL Server, and then additional $125 for EVERY CLIENT? You're talking $8000 for a company with 50 users. $8000 or FREE....hmmmmm.....let me think about that for a nanosecond or two. Don't you see the strategy of IBM, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix. Give away you're database at the low end and kill SQL Server before it can run on anything that could even come close to the big iron that these guys software runs on. If you follow Microsoft this should sound like a familiar tactic. Don't buy Microsoft stock because of SQL Server - don't say I didn't warn you.

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