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| 1197.1 | More information please | TRCOA::MCMULLEN | Ken McMullen | Fri Oct 09 1992 22:15 | 21 |
| This is an appropriate notesfile, but you may also want to post this in
the ORACLE notesfile.
Who has started this interesting thought pattern. I am not sure that
one could argue that a new hardware platform is going to decrease the
sales of a software vendor's products? Is there more context to this?
Is this just in reference to ORACLE sales on the ALPHA platform or will
this be an industry trend? ALPHA may even help increase ORACLE
revenues. Customers who have written their applications using ORACLE
products and outgrown their current platform may move to ALPHA for more
powere. They will have to re-license all of their products on ALPHA.
This will be a nice little piece of business for ORACLE.
ORACLE market share numbers are very high, and in the U*IX space they
own more than 50% of the relational database market.
By the way, if a customer demands ORACLE do you ever expolore the
reasons? Sometimes the customers pre-disposition can be changed if you
have a better alternative (which we do not always have).
Ken McMullen
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| 1197.2 | no reductions seen here | MRKTNG::SILVERBERG | Mark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3 | Mon Oct 12 1992 12:51 | 14 |
| Given that ORACLE will be available on Alpha soon after we announce,
that we want many applications available on Alpha (and Oracle helps
us get there, as do other rdbms products, including Rdb), and that we
have a number of very large performance-oriented opportunities in the
UNIX market that require ORACLE support, I suspect there will not
be a decrease in demand for ORACLE when we release Alpha AXT systems.
You might want to talk with Kathy Appellof (decwet::appellof), the
UNIX Database Product Manager about the current & future relationships
being discussed with Oracle on the UNIX side of the business. Tom
Donahue from VSS (msbcs::donahue) might also be contacted regarding the
OepnVMS position as well.
Mark
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| 1197.3 | Say what ? | KCOHUB::DAZOFF::DUNCAN | When you see a quack, duck ! | Mon Oct 12 1992 20:25 | 13 |
| Re: .0, we(Digital) better hope that Oracle comes out quick on
VMS and OSF/1. There are a TON (ok, ok, a "short" ton) of CSOs
who require Oracle {db | tools} in order to "enable" their applications.
Give the timelines of our database products for non-VMS platforms,
I can't even imagine there being less demand for Oracle products.
In an odd sort of way, IMO, we should be sucking up to Oracle big time
and try to get them to throw as much business to Alpha platforms as
possible (vs HP, IBM AIX, etc.).
We all need Alpha to go well.
-- gerry
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| 1197.4 | | POWDML::SMCCONNELL | Next year, in JERUSALEM! | Mon Oct 12 1992 21:51 | 13 |
| Ken, Mark & Gerry,
Thanks very much for your information.
re: .1
I can't provide a better context for the question at this time. I'll
discuss with the two folks who brought it up to me and try to discuss
with the contacts Mark listed in .2 (thanks, Mark!).
Thanks again,
Steve
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