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To: hasbeen101 who wrote (2619)12/14/1998 4:16:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 3194
 
Damien,
I think it's fair to acknowledge that the whole IT environment has changed from the days when ORCL was a start-up. In the late 1970s, the dbms market was not a multibillion-dollar pie... So, let's say that ORCL was born in a market poised to grow at 100% y/y.

Besides, there'll be some major announcement from ORCL and SUNW today:

news.com

It will be interesting to watch how Microsoft will react to such a bold move by its fiercest competitors... After all, MSFT SQL Server7 is no match to Oracle8i.