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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (17640)	11/14/2002 8:55:32 AM
From: Qualified Opinion	Respond to of 19079

Would you employ a person with that negative opinion ? - eom

To: stockman_scott who wrote (17640)	11/14/2002 10:23:07 AM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

I can't comment on the wisdom of dropping support for older products, but I'm pretty sure that Oracle licenses cover upgrades. So unless this forces people to buy new products, all this does is allow Oracle to decrease support costs. In MSFT's case, forcing people to newer versions of Windows can cause them to have to buy something. As for Ray Lane, I can't recall him saying anything that smart when he was with Oracle, and since then he's been very negative, but I can't recall him being right about anything that wasn't completely obvious. I believe he wants to give the impression that he quit over differences in strategy, when what happened is that Ellison fired him.