[Am-info] Oracle Takes On Microsoft's E-Mail

[Sujal Shah]

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 16:47, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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> Oracle's Collaboration Suite will deliver E-mail via Outlook, but 
> run Oracle 9i as its database, instead of Exchange. Oracle plans 

the announcement held my interest until I read that statement.  Most of
the virus ( or worm or whatever ) problems are not in Exchange...
they're in Outlook, it's default behavior, and in the OE and IE bundled
(sorry, "integrated") components.

Sujal

> to charge $450,000 for 5,000 users, about a third of what 
> Microsoft charges, says Ellison. Oracle's product will let users 
> store documents, E-mail, voice mail, and data files in Oracle 9i, 
> and search for them by date and keyword. "That's [Bill] Gates' 
> long-term strategy, but we have it all now," Ellison says. 
> 
> Josh Greenbaum, an analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting, 
> says Oracle still has to prove that it can safeguard E-mail 
> messages and address lists from hackers as well as it protects 
> business data. - Steve Konicki 
> 
> For more, read:
> Oracle Keeps Its Cool In Tech Spending Crunch
> http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHxC0Bce7K0V20BfGh0AL
> 
> Demand Isn't High For Database Software
> http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eHxC0Bce7K0V20BeRY0AG
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