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To: Spiderman who wrote (5337)	2/4/1998 8:07:00 AM
From: Tarzan	Respond to of 19079

Spiderman, I swing from trees with ORCL bananas in pouch too! Am I coconuts? Hope ORCL doesn't fall from treetops!!! I Tarzan, King of Jungle

To: Spiderman who wrote (5337)	2/4/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: Wheats	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

The only info I have on the NT DB issue is managements comments that they are gaining marketshare in this area whatever that is worth. I have no numbers. Ellison made these comments on CNBC last week. Phil

To: Spiderman who wrote (5337)	2/4/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

why do you say that Oracle is transitioning to NT? Oracle is an enterprise software company - they get the vast majority of their business on Unix. They dont have the feet on the street to sell NT in volume nor do they have the distribution channel. As their large customers deploy NT servers as part of thier infrastrucutre with Unix and Mainframes they inevitably buy some of their software on NT. Thats the big benefit of Oracle over Microsoft - it runs on All platforms. No enterprise of any size uses exclusively NT and sql*server will always be hobbled by that. Plus Oracle software on NT is the same price as Unix.