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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (15042)	1/13/2000 1:26:00 PM
From: Rickus123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Mike, You're too kind. If only I understood the technical issues, I could agree or disagree with you. As you can see from a couple of the other responses, there are others who certainly understand this better than I. What I am hoping to clarify is: a) Did the authors incorrectly classify Oracle as a gorilla in the minicomputer RDBMS game? and (more importantly to me) b) Did the authors correctly classify Oracle as a gorilla in the client/server RDBMS game in spite of what might be an end-run around the proprietary open architecture requirement? In other words, is the presence of high switching cost more important than how those high switching costs are achieved? I welcome your thoughts. --Rick