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To: paul who wrote (10370)	7/8/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Kal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Yahoo's using Oracle till microsoft SQL server version 17 comes out, when it will really, really beat Oracle dead.

To: paul who wrote (10370)	7/8/1998 5:44:00 PM
From: Howard Armstrong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

SQL Server stinks ... one big reason to buy SUNW hardware and Solaris, because it runs databases like Oracle, and it runs them a lot faster and more scalable than NT. SQL Server was developed originally by SYBS in partnership with MSFT. The underlying code is still cruddy Sybase 4.2 code, which still does not support row-level locking (a feature available in ORCL and IFMX for 10 years!) and is very un-scalable. Yahoo cannot possibly run its site on NT and SQL Server ... it is way too slow. NT 5.0 will not solve the scalablility problems, and it's delayed until mid-99 anyway. SUNW is still the only game in town if you want true openness and high performance. I was high on this stock until the NetDynamics acquisition, which made me very nervous for reasons I have already stated.

To: paul who wrote (10370)	7/10/1998 9:02:00 AM
From: Scott McPealy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

SUNW shareholders should be asking the delightful Ms. Williamson when Sun is going to get practical with Java. Programmer benefit at the expense of the customer doesn't cut it in the real world. From an end user perspective, a Java application is not competitive with a Win32 application. It never will be as long as Sun enslaves the Java community to bytecode. The performance problem is not going away. Sun's pathetic response to the performance problem is that its "good enough" and we'll fix it sometime in the future. That 'future' has come and gone. Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Its the execution and marketing that counts. Nobody in their right mind can be happy with Sun except, of course, the religous anti-MSFT crowd.