Re: Beware! the days of Oracle may be numbered

Yes, wasn't it a couple of California newspapers and also paying people to write letters to the editor. If the product isn't good enough that people want to write letters to the editor unprodded I guess you have to have a financial incentive.

Jim

Patrick Flahan wrote in message <7cevsi$fe7$1_at_ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>Could this be a person trying to start rumors on the Internet about the
>downfall of Oracle. Didn't Microsoft do things like that in the past to
>hurt the competition?
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>John P. Higgins <jh33378_at_deere.com> wrote in message
>news:36EA89A6.FDCF504A_at_deere.com...
>>What a bizarre comment!
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>>Oracle's total revenues rose 19% over last year. The database revenues
rose
>10%.
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>>The only drop was on Wall Street because the 'analysts' had guessed an
even
>higher
>>gain.
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>>KeyStroke (Jack L. Swayze Sr.) wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Mr. Gates looks well positioned to be the provider of the next 'got to
>have'
>>> enterprise DBMS software.
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>>> Oracle took a tumble today, which just may be the beginning of the end.
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
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Received on Mon Mar 15 1999 - 07:27:34 CST