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To: ahhaha who wrote (2365)	10/7/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: Mark K.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

I can't believe I'm even bothering with this, but here goes… Ahhaha, do you really believe "The world beats a path away from your door when you build a better mousetrap"? Do you believe the world is beating a path away from ODIS? It sounds like you believe revenue will be down sequentially in the September quarter. What revenue figure would you expect from this scenario? What would ODIS have to deliver in revenue to persuade you this may not be the case? Mark K.

To: ahhaha who wrote (2365)	10/7/1998 7:32:00 PM
From: hasbeen101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3194

Hardware speed increases aren't going to solve all the problems. The company I told you about with the 12 hour overnight processing problem have found that betting on hardware speed increases leaves much too fine a margin for error. Most professional investment software works on monthly, or at best weekly, data, since the RDBMS just can't scale to handle daily. Similarly, for telcos, the need for speed is real. Down here in the third-world country :-) known as Australia, the main telco needs to route up to 200 calls per second using ObjectStore. If you were the project manager, would you choose SQL Server to to that job, betting that faster hardware would save your project? And apart from runtime speed, it's just easier to develop OO software with an ODBMS. Who needs those fossils called RDBMS administrators who get paid big bugs just to make a fundamentally slow technology run fast enough? I think we all agree, though, that the billion-dollar question is whether ODIS can sell this story.