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Strategies & Market Trends : Oracle - look out below!!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clint who wrote (22)	3/15/1998 1:57:00 PM
From: Ralphie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49

these things don't happen over night (with the exception of Netscrape!). it took sybase 10 years to fall into obsolescence. this one won't be any different. all the money in the world can't buy windows Nt and it's inevitable future of sitting on every computer and server in the corporate world. all MSFT has to do is offer the same product for less, with an "upgrade from Oracle" program that makes the transition easy. i suppose you think Intuit is immune to MSFT as well? they have something like $400 million in cash and the dominant position in the personal finance category.

To: Clint who wrote (22)	3/26/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: George Yorg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49

Clint, Thanks for your Oracle story. If one wants to compare MSFT let's look at the customer satisfaction issue. Microsft is the least sensitive customer satisfaction company I have ever had the displeasure to do business with. I firmly believe they put bugs in their products for the simple intent to ruin someone else's products. AOL is one example. If I go to any Microsoft page and try to use their fixes, they are down, they are unavailable or they lead you to a dead end. They will not answer their mail and their telephone reps are arrogant, uninformative and cannot act without talking to a supervisor, (who is always in a meeting and will call back, but never does). And if you try to uninstall you are doomed. Comments anyone?