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Technology Stocks : PSFT - Fiscal 1998 - Discussion for the next year -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark who wrote (2034)9/1/1998 7:29:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4509
 
Mark,
Oh geez, come on, it is NOT a great fit. Psft has a direct sales force that sells into fortune accts. Absolutely no retail business, web storefront etc. The consulting services are people intensive. msft has nothing like this. Off the shelf packaged apps like msft sells and C/S high end space are way way far apart from a business standpoint.

Of course, msft can always acquire somebody and leave them autonomous.

If msft wanted to get into applications, the natural fit would have been quicken with quickbooks, then expand quickbooks upward to compete against low end financial sw, while updating quicken/quickbooks to have more of a C/S architecture. Of course the DOJ nixed that one, msft might have more of a chance getting psft since they are clearly not the leader, but the merger of the two companies would be difficult at best.

MH



To: Mark who wrote (2034)9/1/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4509
 
SQL 7 will not ultimately beat Oracle. Oracle databases have been refined over many, many years. They are extremely scaleable and come with a huge variety of tools and interfaces. Perhaps SQL 8 or 9 might get closer to beating Oracle, but Ellison would have to become very complacent indeed for SQL server to even approach Oracle power and ease of use.


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