Oracle Corp was scathing about Microsoft Corp’s announcement of multimedia alliances with 10 companies – All they really announced is that a couple of telcos are going to be testing their software, said Ben Linder, Oracle’s senior director of marketing for multimedia – There’s no money changing hands, no real deployment and no exclusivity; saying Oracle too has alliances with most or all of the 10 partners named by Microsoft, Linder said he sees no competitive threat – Our software has already gone into deployment in British Telecom’s system and Bell Atlantic’s and will be in BellSouth’s, Linder said – whereas Microsoft said software is targeted for deployment by late 1996.
