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To: MeDroogies who wrote (21605)	1/3/1999 4:36:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

Speaking of ORCL, I'm still waiting for Steve and Larry to get together for an announcement. I can't believe these two don't have something brewing, at least on the drawing board. Why not an Oracle back-end for myapple.com, for starters? Am I the only one who sees similarities in the directions these two companies are heading? Mark

To: MeDroogies who wrote (21605)	1/3/1999 9:29:00 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

Based on ORCL's hefty revival after its LINUX compatibility announcement, look for Jobs to make some moves in that direction. ORCL and SUN announced that thier new simplified database server runs on a microkernal... they didn't say which one. The obvious choice would be the one SUN's UNIX uses, but there is some speculation that they may use the microkernal OS X runs on. I've been following Linux for sometime at: slashdot.org The CONCEPT in itself is fascinating. If you think about it, haveing thousands of dedicated geeks pouncing on system bugs and fixing them is quite interesting. The fact that it has gotten this far and is still basically free is amazing. Combine it with Java and you've got some potent paridigm changing stuff out there. Its remaining problem is still ease of use, the very problem that OS X portends to solve. I have to admit I've been a bit negative on Apple lately but I'm really looking forward to Tuesday.