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Technology Stocks : DOCS - A TURNAROUND PLAY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (634)	8/26/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Richard Esmond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1156

Thier are two WWW DM standards The latest version of ODMA (v2.0) also includes Web based extensions. In fact, you don't need anything but HTTP Get, Put and Post to create a Web based DM system. These standards actually have little deep meaning to the DM vendors. Each DM vendor will have to ultimately support them, but these standards don't solve any of the problems that are holding back DM. Mostly, WebDAV makes it easier for multiple people to update a company's web site without stepping on each other! As for Microsoft; They control the applications that produce 95% of all documents in the world. If they wanted to take the DM market, they would not need a pre-existing standard. They would just build DM into Office 200x and be done with it. WP, Lotus, ... would just have to scramble to get compatible. My guess would be 'ActiveDM', or some such bs. Like Mike, I don't think Microsoft wants DM as much as some think they should. Microsoft does not sell a single mission critical Database application. They sell the tools to build them, the database to run them on etc... but not the application. And these applications require serious support, channel training and development. DM does not easily become a tag-along in the operating system. Microsoft could add DM to Office or NT6 (for free) but would either choke on the support, or watch all the early implementations fail. Finally, DM is the ONLY database application segment where MSSQL has the penetration lead. Why screw with this now, when you still have Oracle to beat? It could be Oracle's battle cry 'Remeber the DM Vendors'... Of course, they would still lose ;)