Re: What database shall I use???

Well, ODBC (and ADO to a lesser extent) is so focused to Microsoft SQL Server & Jet...

MS' only obligation to having MSDAORA is to satisfy people who "have" to use Oracle, and can't (or won't) 'choose' SQL Server.

Oracle should have the reference OleDB and ODBC drivers, not Merant, Microsoft or anybody else. That's just a bad move on Oracle's part, imho.

On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:43:44 GMT, dXXXfenton_at_bway.net (David W. Fenton) wrote:

>n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk (Niall Litchfield) wrote in
><3c8731a8$0$237$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>:
>
>>"David W. Fenton" <dXXXfenton_at_bway.net> wrote in message
>>news:91C9D2B00dfentonbwaynet_at_news-server.nyc.rr.com...
>>> Put another way, MS is not the only large company that plays
>>> games with its technologies to reduce their customers' choices.
>>
>>of course not, all companies prize customer retention for obvious
>>reasons.
>
>Creating poorly performing drivers for standard interfaces in order
>to force customers to use a proprietary tool is not a "customer
>retention" strategy. Well, it wouldn't be for me. It's precisely
>the kind of thing that would drive me to purchase from a different
>company entirely.
>
>That would make it a "customer attrition" policy.
>
>--
>David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
>dfenton at bway dot net http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
Received on Sun Mar 10 2002 - 21:46:33 CST