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To: hasbeen101 who wrote (2625)	12/15/1998 1:20:00 AM
From: Joe Pic	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3194

FWIW, I'll offer my opinion. When Oracle was small, large companies had large IT departments and the DBMS market was large. The Databases were IMS, IDMS, Adabas, Model 204 and DataComm DB. The most prevalent were IMS and IDMS. Then came the idea that Relational was the answer. Since many companies had decision makers who choose IDMS because the salesman was good or IMS because it was IBM it followed that Relational Hype would be sufficient in and of itself to convince decision makers that they needed to get to relational. Cullinet did a poor job and too late a job to salvage it's customer base. However, DB2 was such a dog that it never replaced IDMS or IMS. It merely grew in the mainframe world at a slow pace. Oracle on the other hand was not bought initially as a database for custom development in the mainframe world. It was brought in with an appropriate application for some decentralized operation. Today, there fewer and fewer IT departments that understand or evaluate the requirements of company. The department may have its tech support as well as its operations outsourced with a mission to maintain. However, individual departments with more specific needs may have authority to bring in an objectstore to fit the specific purpose. If ODIS is a niche, at least right now, that may be the best, if not only, way to proceed.