Re: MIcrosoft Blackmail

DENNIS, I think that I did not explain my idea.

I do not understand the complain of Thomas. I do not see any harm in a company choosing its dealers based on their commitment to the goals of my company.

Microsoft has a right to prefer dealer who embrace the .net, or do you think that anybody have the right to tell a PRIVATE company who to deal with?

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> Yechiel - But all things are NEVER equal. So companies end up doing stupid
> things because of some larger motive. You end up buying crappy computers
> because your boss thinks it will impress the CEO with how you are loyally
> supporting someone that somehow supports your company.
> Ironic isn't it. When the PC industry began, the computer industry was
> firmly dominated by IBM. PC enthusiasts were a bunch of starry-eyed
dreamers
> that though they could wrestle computing away from the computer priesthood
> and bring freedom to everyman. In many ways the Internet has made that
dream
> come true. But then we have Microsoft talking about creating a new
security
> system for my computer that on one hand will protect me from bad things
and
> on the other hand will protect the products of large corporations from me.
> In a great number of ways Microsoft resembles the IBM of the past.
> <obligatory Oracle reference>
> Of course Larry Ellison only wishes he had these type of issues to
> deal with.
> </obligatory Oracle reference>
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com <mailto:dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:43 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> What exactly is your problem?
>
> Lets say that you are a factory that sells paper.
> You need to buy a computer system.
> One supplier also sell printers and the other advocate paperless office.
> All things being equal, which one will you give your business to??
>
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: Multiple <mailto:ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:13 AM
>
>
> This came to our DBA team today. I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm
not
> a business
> guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off. Is it
> common practice
> by MS?
>
> It is important from an Architecture point of view that we
> understand all the various approaches to "web services" (also known as
"grid
> computing" -- see my recent report). Microsoft's dot Net initiative is
> their approach to this grand overarching software strategy.
>
> There is a second reason why we might be interested specifically in
> dot Net. Subsidiary XYZ earns $xyz a year for us from
>
> Microsoft by [performing certain services], etc. Microsoft has told
> our management that one of their criteria for evaluating their vendors
will
> be how good of a MS customer is the potential vendor. Specifically, has
the
> vendor bought in to the dot Net strategy. Now we aren't going to make
our
> global enterprise solutions strategy decisions based upon that point
alone,
> but it's not something we are going to ignore either.
>
> Therefore, I support investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot
> Net, but I emphasize the word INVESTIGATING.
>
>
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