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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Olin who wrote (7079)	5/6/1998 10:21:00 AM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

Michael, if you really think that MS is not competition for ORCL today and more so in the future you are totally out of touch with the underlying trends in the marketplace. There are lots of SQLServer database servers being installed in mission critical apps, especially in the fast growing medium size companies that will be the big companies 10 years from now. Pooh-poohing NT and SQLServer because they can't scale like ORCL and UNIX is missing the point, every version they get closer, every version they get better. I can remember when people at Word Perfect said the same thing about MS Word. I can remember when every Unix person I knew had nothing but contempt for MS and NT. I'm not a MSFT fan, but, underestimating what can be done when you're focused and you have a plan to grow your company(and you have more money than God) is a mistake. Truth of the matter is the ORCL has dropped the ball on its best market opportunities and spent alot of time and money worrying about stuff it shouldn't.