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To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (16279)	10/17/2001 8:13:50 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

I have trouble believing them. For one thing, I know people that work in the app-server market, and none of them have ever seen a WebSphere customer. IBM had to buy eBay, and I doubt that they'll end up using WebSphere even so. Anyway, the Gartner audits I've seen don't show any dramatic growth in IBM sales of databases lately, so I wonder if IBM is playing some accounting games. (I have heard most of the bad things that Ellison says about DB2 on Unix echoed by some DBA's that have no obvious axe to grind.) Did you listen to the ORCL annual meeting? It was very interesting. It's at: www-stage.us.oracle.com