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

To: joe who wrote (9173)	12/15/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: treetopflier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

<We'll see in a year or so how the lower end starts meshing with the higher end.> These low end (read CHEAP) databases that MSFT foists on us so a customer can save the license fees ORCL would charge them for a fully functional, distributed, internet enabled, replicable, parallel database are fine until the customer wants to do anything beside a 'personal' or small departmental application with them. Then the fun begins. The customer starts over and pays a real database company for licenses for a real product and ends up throwing away a lot of the development effort they undertook on SQL Server or even worse, MS Access. Joe, MSFT isn't a threat to ORCL on the low end. They are a threat to their customers, who over time outgrow the feature set these products provide, or realize they can't scale them up as promised because NT 5.0 isn't ready and SQL Server doesn't scale if the OS doesn't scale. You really get what you pay for. Cheap is as cheap does... ttf