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To: Rickus123 who wrote (15053)	1/13/2000 1:40:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 54805

In other words, is the presence of high switching cost more important than how those high switching costs are achieved? And are the switching costs actually that high? RDBMS have become commodity items. For the bulk of users, one will do as well as another, although there are some interesting differences in TCO. Seems to me the lock Oracle has has more to do with being the gorilla and therefore the "right" choice combined with, perhaps, the big investment people make into Oracle system administration which would make them look like idiots if they switched. E.g., check out progress.com