RE: Article- IBM vs. Oracle: It Could Get Bloody

Well, I didn't know IBM is "the world's second-largest software company"!

Who is third?

: )

Patrice Boivin
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        From:   Glenn Travis [SMTP:c-glenn.travis_at_wcom.com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, May 22, 2001 3:16 PM
        To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
        Subject:        Article- IBM vs. Oracle: It Could Get Bloody

        Link:
        http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_22/b3734104.htm

        Blurb:
        "Oracle has shifted from rattling its saber at Microsoft to Big Blue


        -- with good reason. IBM has become the software maker's chief rival

        in several segments. Experts say IBM's strategy of painting itself
as
        a neutral party in the applications market could serve it well on
the
        database front because Oracle competes in applications with many of
        the partners it counts on to help sell its databases."




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