Re: Beware! the days of Oracle may be numbered

What a bizarre comment!

Oracle's total revenues rose 19% over last year. The database revenues rose 10%.

The only drop was on Wall Street because the 'analysts' had guessed an even higher gain.

KeyStroke (Jack L. Swayze Sr.) wrote:

> As with other DBMS software, Oracle may be falling from grace. It happened to
> DB2 when Oracle came along, it happened with IDMS when DB2 came along.
>
> Mr. Gates looks well positioned to be the provider of the next 'got to have'
> enterprise DBMS software.
>
> Oracle took a tumble today, which just may be the beginning of the end.
>
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40917236,00.html
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40873622,00.html
>
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40889572,00.html
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40888381,00.html
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40885702,00.html
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40885023,00.html
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40879416,00.html
> http://home.snap.com/main/finance/news/story/0,234,-40875856,00.html
Received on Sat Mar 13 1999 - 09:52:06 CST