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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GS_Wall Street who wrote (8875)	11/18/1998 1:14:00 AM
From: Adam Nash	Respond to of 19080

I think the Oracle Server machines are a good idea. My company is small, but we recently purchased a license for Oracle Server. $25K, because we needed a scalable backbone for a web-based application & services. It is now sitting on a $50K machine, and believe me, we run nothing else on it. Why? Because we want top performance and no unnecessary complications. If Oracle was selling a $50K machine that offered better performance, easier management via the web, we would not care that it wasn't running a "full OS". What's the use of a full-featured OS on a machine when you are not using 90% of the features? We'd rather have increased performance for the money instead. Look at new machines for web services being sold by Cisco and Cobalt (Qube). Just plug them in, set their IP addresses via a physical control on the box, and administrate via the web. They usually run Linux, but you'd never know it. You only see web pages. They also usually don't run on Intel, but once again, you'd never know it. Application-specific machines are making a comeback for dedicated server tasks. After all, what do you think a Cisco router is? And Database is an important enough backbone to be worth its own machine.