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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (145695)	8/18/2002 3:18:00 PM
From: Olu Emuleomo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

>>>There are only 5 remaining major players in software- msft,orcl and on the apps side sap,psft,sebl You forgot IBM and BEA. --Olu E. BTW: The new and exciting stuff in software is in open source aka Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL etc... Proprietary stuff is slowly losing steam! In fact, Linux is one threat that MSFT has no defenses against!

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (145695)	8/19/2002 3:29:43 AM
From: uu	Respond to of 164684

> There are only 5 remaining major players in software- msft,orcl and on the apps side sap,psft,sebl (some say sebl will fall but I am optimistic for them). Actually there is going to be (actually already IS) 2 major players: MSFT, and IBM. (ORCL will soon be history as a major software player and will simply become "just another" software player)... Then there are secondary guys that do not provide the core technology but try to leverage what MSFT and/or IBM will offer: ORCL, BEA, PSFT, SEBl and SAP.