ORACLE Kills Oracle Card, It is official.
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 16:30:03 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Mar8.163003.21585_at_cc.gatech.edu>
As a beta test site of Oracle card 2.0, I received a letter informing me that the product was cancelled. Actually they did try to cover up a bit via coannouncing a new product, the Oracle Multimedia Objects.
The functionality of this product is geared toward writing applications for set-top tv boxes. Meaning that it will be a front end tool for interfacing the video server application DB they are trying to come up with. So, it is not a replacement of OC, but I think a marketing ploy to make accept the changes. It is a little pathetic if you ask me.
Availability: 1Q FY95, which we know is a Microsoft like dealine, meaning we will be happy to see the product in a year.
I like Oracle a lot usually, but this decision is costing us a lot of money and a lot of credibility for me. I can just see how the managers I have sold on OC are going to react to the news...
I understand the money matters behind the decision. I am not blind. But it sucks....
Eh Merde, cela s'appelle se faire baise, quelque chose de bien. Enfin, c'est la vie. Jean-Marc debaud_at_cc.gatech.eduReceived on Tue Mar 08 1994 - 17:30:03 CET
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