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

To: Michael Olin who wrote (9193)	12/16/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Punko	Respond to of 19080

Well, there are some estimates that as much as 70% of the corporate legacy data that is still out there lives in flat-file type data stores on mainframe computers. If that data is to be used effectively in data warehouses, migrating the data to Oracle is a fine way to accomplish that goal. This is the main reason I disagree with those who say that the RDBMS market is already saturated. Just for fun, let's add the gobs of data that are created and recorded every day (I'm talking about audio/video, baby!) and that sooner or later will find their way into products like Oracle's. Oracle's future revenue will be derived not just from its "traditional" customers extending their systems to include rich data management, but also from the potentially vast numbers of new business opportunities that will be created around or be highly dependant upon the effective management of rich content. The O/S will be secondary in this new world of huge data and open standards. He who serves up the data best to the most consumers wins. I'll bet on Oracle, since they're all about client universality and platform choice, not to mention all the "ities". Microsoft is too wrapped up with achieving global dominance and subjugation of mankind to be considered a serious option for businesses whose business is data. If I'm a CIO and my shortlist includes SQL Server (thanks to hefty Microsoft kickbacks - how else can SQL Server make the short list?) in addition to the usual low quality, low performance concerns, I also have to think about flexibility. Oracle will lock me into a database, but Microsoft locks me into that plus a whole lot more - including OS...which to a sophisticated enterprise IS shop is really nothing more than a technological middleman that adds very little value to the core mission: MANAGING DATA. Microsoft's huge client-oriented businesses also make me wonder to what extent a Microsoft server product would demand a Microsoft client in the future. The last thing I want to do is force anything upon my user or customer base.