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

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (8916)	11/25/1998 9:09:00 AM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

If the market really responded to a PR stunt like this, I'd be worried (yes, I'm bothered by the market rewarding MS for announcing vaporware and by amazon.com having a humongous market cap with no expectations of making money anytime soon, but that's another discussion). The biggest benefit to Oracle from putting up the $1 million, IMHO, is the potential for someone, anyone, to put together an audited TPC-D benchmark of SQL Server on a terabyte database. Suppose some consulting firm is able to show SQL Server is only 99 times slower than Oracle and publishes the results. Oracle pays the million and Larry gets to "apologize" for disparaging SQL Server, after all, it is not 100 times slower than Oracle8, it's just 99 times slower! -Michael