Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk>
Date: 9 Mar 2000 02:00:23 GMT
Message-ID: <8a70jn$25qn$2@adenine.netfront.net>

In comp.databases.sybase mike.spooner_at_hil.hftrust.com wrote:

>> > Ffej wrote:
>>
>> > And lets all remember that Xerox stole the icon concept from work

> done


>> > by Egyptians thousands of years ago (who, in turn, probably got it

>> > from cave paintings). The sad, brutal truth is that given how many
>> > people have lived before us, the concept of an "original ideal"

> today

>> > is almost absurd. Everything any culture on the planet has today is
>> > ALL built on somebody else's work.

> Yeah, but not everyone tries to pass off the ideas of others > as their own - only Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc, etc, etc, etc. :-(

Who doesn't :-)

Oracle, Sybase, Informix, etc,etc.

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