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To: jon iliz who wrote (2851)	12/21/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Melissa McAuliffe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3424

Jon, I've been reading your very interesting exchange of messages with Michelle. I have to comment though on your last one which so much points out the SAP mentality of we are the only ones who knows what's right and how things should be done and you can do them our way or else. They even had to go out and invent their own programming language. You asked..."why would anyone want to accept something like COBOL instead of ABAP? That just sounds so like SAP and their approach to everything. Gee...wonder how many other software companies have standardized on ABAP as their preferred programming language. Must be hundreds of them if it's so good.

To: jon iliz who wrote (2851)	12/22/1998 12:02:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3424

Who says model 1 is superior to model 2? Who says SAP didn't find something superior to this other persons "perfect model". Who claimed it to be perfect??? Codd and Date did, there was a white paper about it. Jon, I think everybody appreciates your thoughts here and let me just say that you may be right. The entire point of this whole discussion was not to get into a holy war about Abap. The point was, that in the early 90s a marketing opportunity existed for Oracle to challenge Sap on their architecture. They didnt do that, and they missed their window. Its all water under the bridge now. Michelle