Re: Sybase buys Powerbuilder - Is Oracle Dead?

In article <khuisman.38.000F51C4_at_wnet.gov.edmonton.ab.ca>, khuisman_at_wnet.gov.edmonton.ab.ca (Ken Huisman) writes:
|> 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.
|>
|>

Oracle should get serious and gubble up Gupta! (NOW)

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