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To: sailboat54 who wrote (2995)	4/4/2000 10:49:00 PM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

As a long time lurker I have a question that some smart person here can answer. Today Oracle announced the creation of a "network appliance" to compete directly with MSFT. Are they using NTAP within their appliance? Are they going to be competing with NTAP? I'm not that smart a person, but my guess is that Oracle's "network appliance" refers to some kind of terminal that connects to the internet and somewhat bypasses the need for Microsoft's software. I doubt that they are referring to a "network appliance" as in network attached storage as provided by NTAP.

To: sailboat54 who wrote (2995)	4/4/2000 11:54:00 PM
From: pirate_200	Respond to of 10934

> Today Oracle announced the creation of a "network > appliance" to compete directly with MSFT. Are they > using NTAP within their appliance? Yes. See: biz.yahoo.com "Oracle also shed more details on its so-called 8iappliance, a powerful rack of components designed to be easy to set up and maintain. Consisting of two Intel-based computer servers and data management products from Network Appliance Inc. (NasdaqNM:NTAP - news) and other devices, the appliance could help Oracle slow the proliferation of devices that use rival Microsoft Corp.'s (NYSE:MSFT - news) Windows 2000 software, analysts said."