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At 11:35 AM 4/10/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:

>Tim knows about Jordan, despite his message.  We've repeatedly tried
>to get them interested in BSD, but there's something at ORA that
>resists.

It is, as usual, the "almighty dollar." ORA sees the Linux market as
larger, and therefore favors it. They once explained to me that they
had no interest in porting their Windows and NT Web server or 
conferencing software to UNIX for the same reason.

>I've just about given up with ORA.  They seem to be relinquishing
>their position as the favourite UNIX publisher and chasing the NT
>crowd.

More proof, alas, that they're chasing what they believe to be the
largest market.

--Brett


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