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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (5736)	10/27/1997 8:10:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213173

Prospect of Oracle/Apple Alliance. via DNWire >Jobs Flies in from Hawaii to Give His Answer. (Reminds me of the opening to "Triumph of the Will"!) 27 October - DNWire -- Steve Jobs has finished his contemplative pacing up and down a Hawaiian beach and will return to California today to accept the post of permanent CEO at Apple, numerous online reports suggest. Apple is expected to follow up the official announcement with news that it will form an alliance with Oracle. The Steve Jobs-Larry Ellison partnership is likely to consist of network hardware from Apple and enterprise software from Oracle, according to US reports. Steve Jobs and Apple's Board have already made their decision, although the details have not yet been finalised, ThessaSource reports. The report, which is based on "high-level" sources at Apple, adds that Jobs is preparing a partnership proposal with Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, which they are likely to present to Apple's Board of Directors on October 30. The extent of the alliance has not yet been confirmed. A complete merger is not out of the question, but it is more likely that the two Board members will propose that Apple manufactures the Oracle NC; Rhapsody becomes the platform for Oracle's databases and enterprise solutions; and Apple makes its hardware divisions more autonomous. -------------------------------------- The two companies, the technology , brand recognition, critical mass and financial staying power are sufficient to effect the paradigm shift to NC (Heck, the preliminary $800 Apple NC specs are better than what 99% of the public now use for their effing desktop PCs!) All they have to do is execute. BTW, I really like the idea of a company partnering with Apple that puts its money where its mouth is -- by buying tv ads* -- something MOT and IBM never did for the PowerPC. soup