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

To: Michael Olin who wrote (7740)	7/1/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

Yes. I left a company a few years ago that went from ORCL to SQL...now they're back to ORCL after some serious problems...

To: Michael Olin who wrote (7740)	7/1/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 19080

Michael, Actually if this were an msft vs. orcl database war and purely that I would feel differently. But really what we have coming later this year is the Dell/Msft enterprise solution vs. Orcl on other platforms, and I don't think the other platforms will win. Dell is agressively doing anything it takes to sell these unix-killer enterprise NT boxes (which are very nice and perfect for small business or olap etc) and they are practically synonymous with SQL-server. Also SAP has endorsed sqlserver on NT as the preferred base platform, and is putting a lot of money into it. Of course Oracle is selling well today since sqlserver isnt out yet. But as lml correctly states, the stock mkt is looking to the future. I like NCA and Larry Ellison. Those are 2 things I like about Oracle. But I want to hear from oracle how they are going to make money in the future, and I haven't heard that - I have a problem with that and so does the financial community Im sure. Michelle BTW I used the Oracle NT product at Dell and it was quite painful, the msft sql server interface etc. is a lot nicer on NT. Also, remote administration s/a using sqlloader as a developer on the NT platform was not acceptable. Oracle has some work to do on NT at the UI level.