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To: JDN who wrote (22966)	11/15/1999 8:02:00 AM
From: briank	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Any comments on these two bits of news. I thought that SUN and ORACLE are (were) allies: * NEC CORP has forged an alliance to position itself as a leading Internet company in Japan with the Japan units of ORACLE CORP and HEWLETT PACKARD CO. The companies said they'll pool their hardware and software technologies to create an Internet platform that broadens and supports electronic commerce for corporate customers. Just as Oracle and Hewlett-Packard have joined hands elsewhere, NEC said it'll help develop and market Oracle's "customer relationship management" solutions for clients in the financial, manufacturing, telecommunications and other fields. (CBS.MW) * IBM CORP and ORACLE CORP, usually fierce rivals, said they would collaborate on an IBM- led effort to standardize the Unix operating system. The two companies said they would work together to unify IBM's version of the Unix operating system with Monterey/64, a project backed by IBM, Unix software maker SANTA CRUZ OPERATION INC and chipmaker INTEL CORP to make a mass-market version of Unix. Unix competes with MICROSOFT CORP's Windows operating system. In the face of growing competition from Microsoft, Unix backers have banded together to unify the fragmented operating system, which traditionally comes in a variety of flavors that run mainly on only one company's systems. (Reuters 03:44 PM ET 11/12/99) For the full text story, see infobeat.com