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It also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases
become a commodity. They will be (already are) moving up the chain to applications.

In the transition, Oracle will have the number one commodity database with the best monetization strategy, and be able to continue milking the best commercial database as long as possible in the process.
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It also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases  DonnieBoy | 05/02/09
No, databases are not moving up the chain (any longer)  honeymonster | 05/02/09
What??  GoPower | 05/02/09
No, you put business logic  honeymonster | 05/03/09
why not let the data format do the heavy lifting?  stevey_d | 05/04/09
Sounds like a db programmer  Roger Ramjet | 05/04/09
That's right  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 05/05/09
Unless of course MS decides  John Zern | 05/03/09
I don't think so, because:  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 05/03/09
interestingly Pick is kind of still around as Omnis  stevey_d | 05/04/09
SQL server is free with Small Business Server  stevey_d | 05/04/09
SQL Server not free  Tim99 | 05/05/09
RE: Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams  bhaktuksn | 05/02/09
RE: Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams  DannyO_0x98 | 05/02/09
Advantage is standardization, not indexing  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 05/02/09
Now That You Mention It  DannyO_0x98 | 05/03/09
Sun controls OpenOffice.org  shis-ka-bob | 05/02/09
Not entirely true.....  linux for me | 05/06/09
RE: Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams  donbaker | 05/02/09
OpenOffice will be accepted by more users.......e if i  stevey_d | 05/04/09
Microshaft needs competition and...  GoPower | 05/02/09
Seems to me like imposing mainframe paradigms to productivity packages  Roque Mocan | 05/02/09
You don't have to install base if you don't want it  urbandk | 05/03/09
Yes that's a risk - but it's all in the execution here  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 05/03/09
RE: Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams  darkog | 05/03/09
A tremendous technical advantage?  tonymcs@... | 05/03/09
office 2007.. a long way ahead LOL  stevey_d | 05/04/09
Sum of the highlighted cells has been there a long time  archerjoe | 05/04/09
yeah it was there in Openoffice build 523 or whatever it was and Office2000  stevey_d | 05/04/09
How does Oracle make money?  Anton Philidor | 05/04/09
Anton, you're too funny  stevey_d | 05/04/09
Sun thought StarOffice could win.  Anton Philidor | 05/04/09
just how many developers and resources do you think sun committed to OO?  stevey_d | 05/04/09
You truly are an idiot  Kaiwai | 05/06/09
No he's not  Roger Ramjet | 05/06/09
Thanks, Roger.  Anton Philidor | 05/07/09
Oracle is a publicly traded company.  DevGuy_z | 05/05/09

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