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To: treetopflier who wrote (9170)	12/15/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

I know some of the guys at Amazon, and they are completely pragmatic. If the cost/benefit is there, they'd use an appliance (they'd use a Maytag for that matter). However, they used to run on pretty big iron (and I doubt that it's gotten smaller), so I doubt that they are customers. However, if I wanted to set up a web site and could buy a box with 8i on it and the e-commerce package installed, I'd certainly consider it. In other words, I agree that this is probably the market.

To: treetopflier who wrote (9170)	12/15/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

>>There isn't a lot of tuning talent or DBA expertise involved in these low end MSFT DB installs and that is what he is competing with.<< Even with MSFT's improved version of SQL, it isn't supposed to compete completely in Oracles space. It's more of a low end version. There's lots of companies that are not large enterprise companies that still want lower cost, lower functionality databases. That's what MSFT is setting up for. We'll see in a year or so how the lower end starts meshing with the higher end. It's the standard story for technology cycles over the last 20 years or so.