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To: Michael Young who wrote (10065)	3/13/1999 1:26:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

If Gates is the Michael Jordan of tech, then Ellison is like Partick Ewing. A perpetual wannabe with a big month. Why don't you guys seem concerned that Ellison doesn't shut his mouth and concentrate on running ORCL? Righto, and lets all remember that in the early 90s Oracle was in the exact same position as Msft with respect to their ownership of the "platform" for enterprise data. In fact, just as an off the cuff comment, if I were defending msft on that grounds I would use Oracle as a counterexample of how the platform owners don't always win. Anyway Oracle could have pushed everybody out of ERP (but didn't) - if they can't develop something on their own they should have bought the technology, and then, when they were done with that at Oracle they should have started offering all kinds of enterprise productivity products (I'm thinking about things like, say, corporate data event-driven email) that used Oracle as the file system vs. the underlying unix OS.

To: Michael Young who wrote (10065)	3/13/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: Rick Kupcunas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

I really wouldn't guage a company based on the worth of the original founder... during his day Nelson Rockerfeller (sp) (of Standard Oil fame) was worth much more then Bill Gates is today - even though his hiers are not worth as much as Gates, today the post-monopoly companies are respected just the same. The normal investor has no control on the worth of the founders, their compensation packages could be significantly different.... perhaps Oracle shares the wealth better; we all know that Microsoft hires temporary employees to circumvent the profit sharing, benefits and retirement issues. Get over it about comparing Ellision to Gates when comparing Oracle to Microsoft... compare the product offerrings because that is what I care about. I like Microsoft's Desktop products (Office, NT and few other items) but prefer Oracle's RDBMS compared to Microsoft's .... used them both and believe me Oracle's database is much easier to use (not to mention it performs better). Want to compare product give me a call... want to fault people for being worth 7+ billion compared to 50+ billion count me out!