In the last exciting episode, trainor@uic.edu (Douglas Trainor) wrote:
> Database Wars: Oracle vs. Microsoft
> Vincent Ryan of www.newsfactor.com
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20031127/bs_nf/22767
A plausible outcome, absent of anticompetitive activity, would be for
Microsoft to get squeezed out in the middle.
After all, people _know_ that Oracle scales to "real big systems," and
the "free systems" are providing cheaper options than either Oracle or
Sybase^H^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft SQL Server. That would seem likely to put
pressure on anyone in the middle, which would be MSFT.
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