RE: [oracle-l-OT] News.

Eric,

Are you saying the legacy installations are crap?

(Some of my favorite stovepipe database systems acheive their obfuscation by virtue of being routed through mainframe 'oracle image' rdbms-like emulations.)

• Larry "Roland" Ellison

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just as I suspected, once you factor out the legacy sphincter installations, Oracle has the biggest relational "O ring".

On 14 May 2002 at 15:13, Henry Poras wrote:

> Tom Kyte posted this url as a reply on one of the newsgroups.
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020508/sfw038_1.html

...

> Gartner: IBM Steals Database Crown from Oracle
>
> IBM has dislodged Oracle Corp. from the top of the market for database
> management software, helped along by its billion-dollar purchase of
Informix
> Corp., according to new figures being released today by Stamford,
> Conn.-based Gartner Inc.

...

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