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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MeDroogies who wrote (11786)	9/14/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I really don't know what most folks on this thread were expecting from ORCL... Take a look around at the enterprise applications business, how many vendors have license increases the past two quarters over the same Q last year? The answer is very, very few. Look at the ERP, SCM vendors. Virtually all of them have seen slowdowns, if not drop offs the past two quarters. If their apps are not selling, there aren't any DB's going out with them, either. I think the ORCL numbers are pretty impressive in this environment. Their ebiz related sales have kept them on a positive note. When the rest of the DB and app business comes back, next year, sales will boom...