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To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2311)	9/28/1998 12:34:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3194

Bob, Maybe a good move would be for ODIS to take over Andromedia? After all, their flagship product is based on ObjectStore and it looks like they don't develop other products than ARIA. Furthermore, selling ARIA would not interfer with ODIS' customers and VARs. Yet, the problem is $$$: the pricetag of Andromedia could be too much for ODIS and there're so many markets to develop: mobile & embedded DBs, manufacturers outside the traditional telecom/financial companies (DELL Computers e.g.), etc...

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2311)	9/28/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: hasbeen101	Respond to of 3194

Again IMO, it is the third point that I feel is the most critical. Creating channel conflict is a marketing nightmare. I agree. My company creates solutions in one vertical market (funds management) using ObjectStore. If ODIS was building its own products in my vertical market, I would be less inclined to do business with them. Now developing some good object based horizontal applications is a great idea. I will leave that to the more technically inclined to comment on. The impression I get from the company web site is that ODIS is going after the XML market in a big way. Some of the pundits say that XML will be much bigger than HTML 5 years from now. It seems quite possible that the company will not just ship XML support in ObjectStore, but that it might also ship some tools or applications for managing XML documents. I'll go and check the web site to see the latest about the company's XML initiative.