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To: Michael Olin who wrote (9165)	12/15/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: joe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 19080

>>You must get Microsoft's PR intravenously.<< I do own MSFT shares, but I am not a MSFT spy. I'm basically trying to learn more about the E-commerce field, and learn more about Ellison's PR bllsht. Ellison knows software, and this makes him dangerous, IMO, since he has taken so many instances to mislead the public. Basically, the guy makes me nauseous. Here's more on Ellison's "Iron Lung Box": Oracle's Raw Iron plan not fully forged By Mike Ricciuti Staff Writer, CNET News.com December 15, 1998, 12:20 p.m. PT news.com Here's just one of the points made: Others said the concept of a preconfigured, pretuned, database bundle won't resonate with the hard-core Unix community. Zona Research, in a bulletin issued yesterday, questioned whether the information appliance model, which has worked extremely well for network storage products, will work in the Unix database market, where users tend to optimize the underlying operating system to work with their applications.