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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (14759)	12/11/1997 11:33:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>That is ORCL mgmt. talking, not exactly what I would call an unbiased source. Before SQL Server, who do you think was selling to the smaller businesses (where a good part of the market is)?<<< Not Oracle. SQL Server predates NT, which came out in 1993. SQL Server was originally sold on OS/2, which oracle had no product for. Actually, back then most of those small companies either went dBase, Paradox, or something similar. Slightly larger ones went for Informix ISQL or AS400 on small configurations. Or SQL server. People seem to like to think that Oracle has been around on the small platforms and that SQL server just came out of nowhere the last couple of years. Actually, SQL Server was just a platform version of Sybase. It has been around even as SQL server for quite a while. And those tremendous numbers you see have a lot to do with the fact that Microsoft bundles the limited developer 5-login version with developer network, back office, IIS, etc etc. VS actual sales for Oracle and Informix. We won't be able to get the figures for real installations, with say more than a dozen users, who paid real bucks for the server. Chaz