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

To: alydar who wrote (14214)	7/16/2000 9:37:04 PM
From: Kellenberg	Respond to of 19080

blisenko...Sometimes it is even more important than technology. Never were truer words written. As a Novell shareholder for many years - I had been lured into buying the stock because of their tremendous technology. However they never (and still haven't) figured out how to actually SELL all of these great things that they produce. I'll take a little more mediocre technology with world class management over world class technology and mediocre management any day. When you have the combination that ORCL has - top notch in both respects - you have a stock to buy now and cash in when you're ready to retire. Best of luck to all John

To: alydar who wrote (14214)	7/16/2000 9:45:58 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I've talked to quite a few technical people about Oracle products, and what I've heard consistently is that Oracle software is quite competitive technically. For instance, one guy I know that had a lot of experience with ERP systems said that Oracle's software was better designed than SAP and PeopleSoft (this is his opinion, but he worked with them all and had no particular axe to grind), except that the user interface for Oracle was terrible. This is probably the biggest change in 11i -- they have switched from using the SQL*Forms interface (or whatever it's called) to generating HTML and using a browser. (I don't know for sure that they've really done that universally, but that's what the PR makes it sound like.) This guy was convinced that this simple change would be a big improvement for Oracle's ERP software. In other words, I think that competitors like to pick on Oracle's technology because it's fairly hopeless to attack them on any other point. And my take is that while no one is the clear winner, Oracle is as good as or better than all of the other players. (I think that MSFT is the clear loser in this area, and in fact are only credible because they can afford to keep trying indefinitely.)

To: alydar who wrote (14214)	7/23/2000 1:53:59 PM
From: oscairo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

We are currently using Oracle as our companies software system. Oracle seems more suitable for large companies that can afford to hire people to maintain this very expensive and non-user friendly application. I was on the committee that voted for Oracle software and I'm sad to say that I made the wrong choice. Oracle doesn't come out of the box like their salespeople represented. I've dealt with Fox-Base, Mantracks, Qube and Oracle. My best experience using corporate software was Qube. Oracle is cumbersome, you must go into several screens to find data that should be in a common center. oscairo