Put up your dukes, Microsoft

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Booming Internet sales could someday allow Oracle Corp to topple Microsft as the world's biggest software company. That possibility has emboldened Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to say that his company is the odds-on-favorite to become the top software provider on the Internet. He even derided Microsoft.Net, Microsoft's new Internet initiative, as 'Microsoft Not Yet.' However, Ellison's critics believe things would turn out to be otherwise for Oracle. For instance, Steve Mills, senior VP of IBM's software group describes Ellison as the PT Barnum of overhyped products and broken promises. On the other hand, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Oracle's business model is flawed.

Advertising, DBMS software

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Microsoft taps new COO to run show

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Rick Belluzzo has been appointed president and COO of Microsoft Corp, replacing Bob Herbold, who is retiring from the company. Belluzzo, promoted to the post after only 17 months at Microsoft, will be responsible for the software giant's daily operations. He is the former CEO of Silicon Graphics and impressed Microsoft's top brass with his big- picture management style and affinity for consumer services. Belluzo is also credited with upgrading the Microsoft Network online service, developing the Xbox game console and founding the dot-Net division.

Systems Software Pkgs (Micro), Executive changes & profiles, Microsoft Corp., Operating systems (Software)

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Oracle drops prices to battle IBM, Microsoft

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Oracle Corp has slashed prices 50% to 70% on Jun 14, 2001, on its latest product, 9i. Also, Oracle's billionaire CEO Larry Ellison went on the offensive by claiming that IBM misled and deceived customers when comparing the cost of its software with Oracle's. Like Big Blue and Microsoft Corp, Oracle will now charge customers for the number of processors on each computer running the 9i database.

Prepackaged software, Consumer prices, Applications Software Pkgs (Micro), Brief Article, ORCL, Applications software

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