Re: "Oracle Streams" by Madhu Tumma

Chris,

I have downloaded few of your presentations from your site and they are really excellent. Unfortunately, I was also in the same impression as you were while buying the same book. Once I started reading it I realized I have wasted my few bucks as well precious time as well. They said CBO internals, there is nothing interal mentioned and to tell the fact there are good presentation which far better than this book. I was really shocked by reading this book. The book looks patch set like containg several white papers of Don and other authors which no one give good reviews.
God only knows anyone else reading and buying the book from their press. Sorry if I am too rash.

On 11/14/05, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini_at_trivadis.com> wrote:
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> >Don Burleson is not just an editor, he's the owner
> >of Rampart Press. Quite surprising that he
> >would recommend a book his company published, eh?
> >
> >--Terry
>
> Hi
>
> IMHO it's very unprofessional and almost fraudulent behaving like this. I don't understand why companies like Amazon are supporting it as well. A good example is available here http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0974599336/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/103-9162065-1954230?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=507846. Notice that from the 5 reviews that give more than *one* star (of course 4 or 5!) at least 3 are well know people working for Rampant. INDECENT!
>
> Have a nice day,
> Chris
>
> PS: Yes, being interested in everything around the CBO I bought Floss' book. This is for sure my first and last book of this editor.
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