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Sybase buys Powerbuilder - Is Oracle Dead?

From: Ken Huisman <khuisman_at_wnet.gov.edmonton.ab.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 22:19:03 GMT
Message-ID: <khuisman.38.000F51C4_at_wnet.gov.edmonton.ab.ca> 






I heard today that Sybase bought PowerSoft for something like 960 million.
So how do you think this is going to affect Oracle?



The real cost of software development is in the code, not in the back-end 
database.  If Sybase chooses to make powerbuilder/oracle "second tier", will 
people replace their oracle servers with Sybase ones, if it becomes necessary?



This could be very interesting indeed.
Received on Tue Nov 15 1994 - 23:19:03 CET












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