Re: Beware! the days of Oracle may be numbered

So you do consider Bill to be a reincarnation of Sauron? Tell me, who are the other nine ringwraiths and especially who is the current ringbearer? Linus Torvald?
I like you paraphrase of the inscription of the One Ring, though I would have thought Bill is more like Gollum, at least as sneaky as Gollum is: what does it have in its pockets? Hidden e-mails probably

Cheers,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Mladen Gogala wrote:

> In article <36EA0304.DE100806_at_Feist.Com>,
> KeyStrk_at_Feist.Com 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
> >
> Mr. Gates may look well positioned, but Mr. Gates has DOJ breathing down
> his neck. What we may have to deal with in the next millenium are several
> "Baby Bills", which will not be able to bundle apps with OS and/or use
> predatory pricing to drive competitors out of the marketplace. I somehow
> suspect that "Baby Bills" will not be as formidable competitor as Microsoft.
> I am looking forward to that.
> Mladen Gogala
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>
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Received on Sun Mar 14 1999 - 07:42:00 CST