Oracle-L: RE: RE: larry want to take over your e-mai

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:04:01 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00496737.20020712090401@fatcity.com>

Patrice - I especially agree with your last statement "don't believe there is a real solution to this". Remember a technology vendor has 3 constituents, all of whom think they are the most important: stockholders, employees, customers.

I have noticed that previous slumps in technology sales have tended to correlate with periods where there aren't compelling new products to be purchased. We could all run our current products for years to come, but then that wouldn't produce any new sales would it? In the short term about all a vendor can do to show its stockholders is cut employees in response to falling revenues. Eventually new products will appear, but that takes much longer and if the company goes out of business before then, it is rather moot.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 20% OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:58 AM
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I have mixed feelings about this - I think this is pervasive within the high-tech industry, and my gut feeling is that it may help explain why tech stocks are so low.

Do you think they (the industry leaders) will get the message?

I seriously doubt it. Right now the focus seems to be on cutting staff and costs rather than improving products to build loyal customers and increase revenues. It's been like this for as long as I can remember. But the industry leaders are probably in a bind: Many high quality products disappeared because a cheaper alternative came on the market.

Part of the problem is that people think short term, if they see a half-finished product at lower cost that markets itself as being "the cheaper alternative" for an expensive solution, purchasers tend to pick the cheaper option if they think they can live with it. In some cases if a well-known company says "wait 6 months, we are working on this too and our product will amaze you," customers actually decide to postpone projects based on vaporware promises.

Overall costs may actually be higher when cheaper alternatives are selected, but in many places no one is focused enough, wise enough or around long enough to do long-term assessments. In many cases it's because everyone is too busy to cross the t's and dot all the i's.

It doesn't encourage vendors to build top-quality, long-lasting products. In my opinion.

I also don't believe there is a real solution to this, most people are happy with the status quo.

My CDN$0.02.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

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Sent:	Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:15 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:	Re:RE: larry want to take over your e-mai

Hannah,

Friday is tomorrow, settle down everything will be all right. It's just his
Bill complex showing through, you know that MicroSoft mantra, "We will be everything to everyone." I'm still waiting for that piece of Windows software
that insures my coffee cup remains full. At least the Oracle based one I developed warns me when it's half full and does not GPF in the process. :-)

Dick Goulet

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Author: johanna.doran_at_sungard.com
Date:       7/11/2002 9:18 AM

THAT DOES IT. I am starting training on DB2 right away (Yeah - I can actually
AFFORD to.... no $2000 requirements!!). I want a DB that KNOWS its a DB and not
an all-purpose quagmire of inter-related but not really related junk just because Larry has a Bill complex!

Oracle and CHEAP cannot be used in the same sentence! Must have been a misquote...surpised they dont need a 5000 named user license!

Argh...... mental meltdown in process. One... two.... deep breath.... Is it Friday yet?

Hannah

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