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To: Richard Karpel who wrote (210)	10/23/1998 3:38:00 PM
From: treetopflier	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 717

Richard, I was forced into working with MSTR during the three years I was in pre-sales at ORCL. They were present at a large retailer in Minneapolis and we wanted the warehouse business there. They had chosen MSTR as the desktop frontend to the warehouse. Bad choice. Don't believe MSTR is still there. They never could get the whole package to perform. It wasn't just an MSTR problem, but their false promises sealed their fate. My opinions about the company and its products are from the vantage point of a database administrator who has to try and live up to the false promises that MSTR sells their customers. To make queries perform against large datasources requires a lot more than some cute looking piece of front end code. Web enabling it doesn't change the fact that do deliver reasonable response time requires a concerted effort from the database design forward to the end user, not the inverse. I have always felt that the vendors like ORCL, IFMX, SYBS, IBM were in a better position to deliver 'data dippers' and the consulting to arrive at good designs than MSTR and its consultants. If I wanted to build a Web enabled warehouse or data mart and deploy it to a lot of people MSTR would be last on my list of vendors, just below Information Advantage (IACO). I'd go with the vendor that supplies the warehouse storage every time. They are the ones that understand how to optimize data access to their data store, not MSTR. Saylor is not a fraud. He is a moron. There is a difference. A fraud knowingly perpetuates a lie. A moron doesn't know the difference. Saylor probably believes the crap he is foisting on investors and customers. He is an Ellison/Gates wannabee with a messiah complex to boot. Problem is that he is technically incompetent, whereas the other two are not. ttf