Ok, I just used the subject line to get your attention.
From today's copy of InformationWeek's daily e-mail.
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** Oracle Takes On Microsoft's E-Mail
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he wants to exploit the security
vulnerabilities and high price of Microsoft's E-mail software by
selling customers a new package based on Oracle's database.
In an interview at a meeting of financial analysts at Oracle's
headquarters Wednesday in Redwood Shores, Calif., Ellison said
the Oracle Collaboration Suite--due this year--will be more
secure, reliable, and virus-free than Microsoft's Exchange and
Outlook products. And it will be cheaper, he says. "Microsoft has
never had to compete on price for Exchange and Outlook, but now
they have to compete on price, security, reliability, and
features."
Oracle's Collaboration Suite will deliver E-mail via Outlook, but
run Oracle 9i as its database, instead of Exchange. Oracle plans
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
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My gut reaction? I don't think so, not after the
debacle know as Oracle*Mail.
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