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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2366)	10/7/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 3194

I didn't miss anything. ORCL is trying to do damage control. Reuters will be proven completely right in their supposed error. It's hard to believe it wouldn't happen. If not, that's further proof that ORCL is a monopoly. IBM and MSFT have already put the pressure on. My previous post tries to emphasize a change in things that exceeds Moore's Law. Prices in computer hardware coming down even faster than could be imagined. Example: DELL Dimension. They sent me a catalog showing a price for their low end machine 3 months $500 higher than the latest catalog with substantially better equipment and a major jump in processor speed. You can use your old software system at new economies of scale. The economies are advancing faster than their utilization. I have preached this before. The need for faster processors is falling at the margin. All my office systems which were written by me and therefore poor, are almost instantaneous in execution. I don't need any more speed even though demands for throughput have risen. There are needs for higher speeds, but in a PC dominated world more and more speed is not worth more and more money. That's what it would take for R & D to be spent to achieve cheap greater speed.