Message-Id: <10653.119718@fatcity.com> From: Satar Naghshineh Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:45:42 -0700 Subject: RE: DATE 5th OCT, 1582 not coming This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C03944.63519470 Content-Type: text/plain Yeah, Kinda cool that Oracle knows this. Now our BaaN ERP system can invoice our customers properly that have purchased manufactured parts from our web catalog that we sent out in the year 1582. Our sales and marketing team can project future sales growth based on the data in our database from our sales year 1582. Real cool...Now if Oracle can adjust their licensing prices to reflect the year of 1582. I'll gladly pay 2 dollars for 100 Named User License. Regards, Satar P.S. no need to reply to this message, it's just a random message generated from the Twilight Zone from the /dev/null files. David, maybe the pope was one of the original Oracle designers? ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: David Peasley [SMTP:david@adams.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:22 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: DATE 5th OCT, 1582 not coming > > In 1582, Pope Gregor XIII ordered a calendar reform to correct the gradual > error that had built up resulting from the Julian calendar being too long > by 11 minutes or so. Part of the reform decreed that, October 4th, 1582 > would be followed directly by October 15th. > > Kinda' cool that Oracle knows that... :) > > David Peasley > Database/System Administrator > Adams State College > Alamosa, CO 81102 > 719-587-7704 > > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C03944.63519470 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: DATE 5th OCT, 1582 not coming

Yeah, Kinda cool = that Oracle knows this. Now our BaaN ERP system can invoice our = customers properly that have purchased manufactured parts from our web = catalog that we sent out in the year 1582. Our sales and marketing team = can project future sales growth based on the data in our database from = our sales year 1582.

Real cool...Now if = Oracle can adjust their licensing prices to reflect the year of 1582. = I'll gladly pay 2 dollars for 100 Named User License.

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P.S.  no need = to reply to this message, it's just a random message generated from the = Twilight Zone from the /dev/null files. David, maybe the pope was one = of the original Oracle designers? ;)