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

To: Mighty Mizzou who wrote (10685)	5/13/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Mark Palmberg	Respond to of 19080

It is mere speculation from Maria to get her face in the camera. I have no problem with seeing MB's face on my screen. I'd rather watch that than ORCL tank (again). Just remember, ORCL is installed in 90% of the biggest websites!!! Oh, great. That means the market for Oracle's products is pretty limited going forward, huh? Selling into the remaining 10%? <g> I'm not selling my Oracle, and frankly, I wish I had some cash lying around right now to throw in. The action in this stock for the last couple years reminds me of AT&T, so I'm hoping for a trip up to another ORCL split pretty soon (6 mos.). With my other companies I can at least envision how they can use their upcoming and existing products to make money, and I agree with LE that "the Internet changes everything," but I'll be damned if I can see how Oracle is going to really profit off the whole thing. Being installed on 90% of the biggest Web sites hasn't done s%*t for Oracle so far. I looked at their ads in the latest Fortune, which tout their presence on all these hot Web commerce sites, then I look at their stock price, and I think to myself, "what is wrong with this picture?" That's real nice if you're powering Amazon.com, Larry, but if it don't help the bottom line, what's it all mean? I guess I have to have at least one dog in my portfolio. Mark