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What bothers me about this (besides us being on of the 200 sites using
Oracle, and having to explain why we are on an older version of it), is that
Oracle's absence on the 3000 will keep applications off of the 3000, since
they almost certainly only run with Oracle. This in turn keeps Oraclers from
being exposed to the 3K; it is an experience to explain to an Oracler what
MPE does for them so that they don't have to. And, it removes any hope that
Oracle and IMAGE/SQL could go 'head-to-head' as the RDBMS for a given
application. I would expect IMAGE to 'blow the doors off' of Oracle.

I do not have an answer for 'selling' Oracle on the 3000; I sincerely wish I
did. That it lagged behind in version, and was not included in Oracle
customer's site licenses for Oracle, cannot help. Even if HP changed their
mind about not porting v8, I would expect Oraclers to wonder when they will
get the MPE rug pulled out from under them. Unless HP intends to start
actively attracting software vendors to port to MPE and IMAGE... now that
would be a great day.

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