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To: Sowbug who wrote (7917)	1/22/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

I hope they factor in the soured customers as a result of such a deal. Access sucks. FM Pro is great, for what it is. But why trust Oracle to support FM Pro long term, if AAPL has another DB product? And if that DB product is Access, phthhhht! I see APPL losing a money-making product and gaining customer ill-will. For what? To be held hostage to MSFT for one more application. AAPL has a terrible history of dumping software products that have had great market acceptance. Each time they have done so, it has hurt the platform a little bit more. Take a lesson out of the page of MSFT: don't give a s**t about other software vendors products WRT those you can sell and make money with on your own. Just make it easy for those vendors to develop products. When they start to make $$$, BORG them into Claris. Let Claris grow. Claris makes $$$. And if five years from now AAPL IS CLARIS, then great. JMO