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Thomas Womack wrote:
> 
> Oracle isn't short on money; it looks as if they're willing to spend
> on R&D roughly what they get in revenue for hardware, to spend on
> sales roughly what they get in revenue for new software, and to keep
> as profit roughly what they get in revenue for software license
> renewals and support contracts.  $700 million a month profit in FY
> 2011; R&D spending roughly half of Intel's.  I wouldn't bet against
> them in the long run, any more than against IBM.

I wonder how often Unisys refreshes the
ClearPath MCP architecture, and how big
is the group assigned to that?