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

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (36)	4/3/1998 1:08:00 PM
From: Michael Frank	Respond to of 49

When were last earnings released. Where do you think Oracle going to.

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (36)	4/4/1998 11:56:00 PM
From: Ralphie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49

thanks BBP, i'm having fun! i don't agree that time is on your side. the MSFT hype of 7.0 begins this week and will last for the next 6 months. the top article on the MSFT homepage is SQL 7.0. microsoft.com "Microsoft SQL Server is the leading database software for Windows NT Server, according to IDC, with 44 percent of license shipments compared to 28 percent for second-place challenger Oracle. IDC's latest database research shows Microsoft SQL Server license sales growing at more than 100 percent annually. Shipments of Microsoft SQL Server grew by more than 125 percent in the first fiscal quarter compared to last year, reaching the milestone of more than 4.5 million user licenses shipped." i'm holding on to my puts until ORCL hits 12.

To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (36)	4/4/1998 11:59:00 PM
From: Ralphie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49

snipped from MSFT's site: The benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 (to be released in 1998) include: Greater scalability. SQL Server 7.0 provides a single database that scales from a laptop computer running Windows 95 or Windows 98 to a terabyte symmetric multiprocessor cluster running Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition. New to release 7.0 is a personal version with a low memory footprint that is well suited to mobile computing. Other new features include row-level locking, intraquery parallelism, multisite update replication, distributed query and very large database (VLDB) enhancements. Superior data warehousing. Release 7.0 addresses the complexity of data warehousing with support for data extraction and transformation (a new feature called Data Transformation Services), improved handling of complex queries and very large databases, integrated online analytical processing and extensive support for third-party integration. Easier management and use. Release 7.0 offers a lower total cost of ownership with features such as multiserver, single console management; event-based job execution and alerting; integrated security; and administrative scripting. These powerful management facilities, along with new auto-configuration features, make Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 the ideal choice for embedded and branch automation applications.