MORE NEWS: ANOTHER ELLISON GUARANTEE - RE: News flash - IBM buys

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. –– Hoping to reassure skittish customers, Oracle Corp. is guaranteeing to install a complex piece of online business software in 90 days or the company will give the product away.
The Redwood Shores-based software company will introduce the new promise Tuesday under a new marketing campaign called "The War on the Complexity," CEO Larry Ellison said Monday during a 90-minute meeting with reporters. The pledge amplifies on Oracle's efforts to build upon its leadership in database software to sell more products that help companies automate a wide range of sales and administrative chores. It also represents the latest in a long history of marketing gimmicks for Oracle, which is trying to dominate Internet software like archrival Microsoft Corp. does personal computer software.

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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Behar, Rivaldi   [mailto:Rivaldi.Behar_at_ilonafinancial.com]Sent: Tuesday, April 24,   2001 4:28 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list   ORACLE-LSubject: RE: News flash - IBM buys   Informix
  Why doesn't he buy IBM ?
  Rivaldi Oracle DBA
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  href="mailto:Ed.Haskins_at_VerizonWireless.com">mailto:Ed.Haskins_at_VerizonWireless.com]   Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:16 PM <FONT   size=2>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <FONT   size=2>Subject: RE: News flash - IBM buys Informix   I think Larry should buy Sybase!!
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  Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:21 PM To: Multiple   recipients of list ORACLE-L
  It has been announced today that IBM has purchased Informix.   See your local tech news service later today for   details.
  Hmmmm. Wonder what Larry thinks about this?   Cheers,
  Earl
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