From: "Glenn Stauffer" <stauffer@swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Re: So, anybody in the world knows the price for Oracle7.3? (5-user license and Web license)
Date: 1996/10/10
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Might be because Microsoft is aggressively pitching SQL Server as a db
engine for web-based db apps.  It comes setup with a demo db that is
referenced in the IIS database demo page.  Made me want to download it... 
And, it works pretty well.

Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote in article
<aak2.844838411@Isis.MsState.Edu>...
> 
> Have you visited the Oracle store on www.oracle.com ?
> 
> Price is 1,475.00  They are running a special and it is now 1,180.00 
> I am wondering why only NT and why not Solaris X86 also ?  Do they
> have something against Sun or Solaris ?  Or do they get paid by Microsoft
 
> for promoting their OS ?
> 
> Atif Khan
> aak2@ra.msstate.edu
> 


