More Ellison quotes

Dan Kohn (dan@teledesic.com)
Fri, 4 Oct 1996 15:40:19 -0700


>ORACLE CHIEF THINKS NETSCAPE'S ON WAY OUT
>Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said an industry conference in
>Paris
>that its sometime-ally Netscape has "no chance of surviving."
>Predicting
>that Netscape's Navigator Web browser was doomed, Ellison said that
>"there
>will be no such thing as a browser in a couple of years," because
>browsers
>will have been replaced by central servers that will supersede current
>searching and messaging software. Netscape executives have suggested
>that
>Ellison is hoping to talk down the price of Netscape in preparation for
>a
>takeover attempt. (Financial Times 3 Oct 96)
>