Return of the prophet.

Reports on the marketing of network computers by Oracle, the world's second largest software company, as of June 1997. The actions of Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle; The company's competition with Bill Gates and Microsoft Corp.; Ellison's insistence that network computers will begin outselling p...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 343; no. 8023; pp. 66 - 68
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 6/28/1997
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Summary:Reports on the marketing of network computers by Oracle, the world's second largest software company, as of June 1997. The actions of Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle; The company's competition with Bill Gates and Microsoft Corp.; Ellison's insistence that network computers will begin outselling personal computers by the year 2000; The launching of the network computer software Oracle8.