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Re: reason behind Oracle and HP love affair

From: Brian McGraw <brian.mcgraw_at_infinity-insurance.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:18:13 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00385AD2.20010906112518@fatcity.com>

Actually, I've heard it was because HP's Carly was throwing free machines at Oracle (and Amazon, BTW) to get them to switch.

Brian

"Boivin, Patrice J" wrote:

> I think I now know why...
>
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/nation/Hewlett_Packard_to_buy_Compaq+.
> shtml
> <http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/247/nation/Hewlett_Packard_to_buy_Compaq+
> .shtml>
>
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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