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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (10315)	8/27/1998 1:18:00 AM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Oracle 7 was never more expensive. Oracle had 2 versions of the database - the low end version was specifically called Oracle Workgroup Server - it lacked replication features and was thus more similar to sqlserver of the time. Microsoft always compared sqlserver against generic oracle in their soundbites which which was like comparing a yugo to a Mercedes. Oracle changed that with oracle 8 by making Oracle 8 the low end edition and calling the fuller featured version Enterprise Edition. as far as looking at marketshare for sqlserver as going from 0 to 40% - microsoft has had the joint development agreement with sybase since 1987. Microsoft owns the NT platform - so i wouldnt call having 40% market share for a Microsoft product miraculous since microsoft has gotten this far by giving sqlserver away.