Re: Oracle Takeover Bid of PeopleSoft Falls Through

"Mikito Harakiri" <mikharakiri_at_ywho.com> wrote in message news:Qe7La.22$2b5.84_at_news.oracle.com...
> "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
> news:3efcab88$0$961$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com...
> > Check out 9iAS - a recipe for consultancy and eternal upgrades if ever I
> saw
> > one.
>
> Seems that we have "who sucks the most" competition.
>
> It is really about product definition. Find goofy RDBMS around, there is
> simply none. That's right, RDBMS is SQL execution engine with well defined
> specs.
>
> One more relatively decent oracle product: JDeveloper. Similar to RDBMS,
IDE
> is a product with well defined spec. And yet again, you'll hardly find
other
> IDE that totally sucks on the market.
>
> What is Application Server, may I ask? A random collection of goofy
> inventions like cartridges, web cache, message exchange "framework", and
> other nonsence patched to Apache?
>
> Would be interested to know what other oracle product is not a disaster.
>
>

Rhetorical question: how about the RDBMS itself. And Designer/Developer. They *work*
If you don't want to work with Oracle products isn't it time to commit harikiri, at least in this group?

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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