From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Sat Mar 6 00:43:21 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i266hLh13584 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:43:21 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i266hKo13579 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:43:20 -0600 Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 577C4394C60; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:45:15 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Fri, 05 Mar 2004 15:44:11 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from relay.pair.com (relay.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with SMTP id DD36539494A for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:43:41 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 88439 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2004 20:47:46 -0000 Received: from dynamic-173-81.oreilly.com (HELO 172.30.254.73) (209.58.173.81) by relay.pair.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2004 20:47:46 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.197.173.81 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:47:45 -0500 From: Jonathan Gennick X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <73596293454.20040305154745@gennick.com> To: "Rognes, Sten" Subject: Re[4]: Oracle 911 Article In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 654 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jonathan@gennick.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l Friday, March 5, 2004, 1:06:54 PM, Rognes, Sten (Sten.Rognes@schwab.com) wrote: RS> I first saw the silver bullet term used in Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month RS> (1974) in the "No silver bullet - essence and accident" essay to describe RS> the "quick relieves" approach in this context. I would not be surprised if RS> that's were the Ingres marketers got the term from.. ? I would think they got it from The Lone Ranger. Hiyoooo Silver, and Away! Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@gennick.com and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------