Re: selecting a column according to a minimum

Mark Townsend (markbtownsend_at_comcast.net) wrote:
: Mikito Harakiri wrote:
: > Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<2tkf50F20philU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...

: >>IBM policy does not allow me - a DB2 engine developer - to install a
: >>competitive product. The reasons for that are obvious: It would invite
: >>lawsuits. Just read the Oracle licencing agreement if you doubt that.
: >

: I don't think there's anything in the Oracle Trial License agreement
: that would stop Serge from downloading and trying Oracle Database 10g.
: After all, IBM are a huge Oracle partner, and they have Oracle software
: up the gnu.

...
: So I think it's more IBM's own internal policies that stops him from
: doing so

Presumably IBM wants to avoid the chance of stealing, or appearing to steal, or being accused of stealing, oracle technology for ibm products.

Allowing ibm employees to access oracle to write sql queries and etc would be fine, but allowing their DB2 development team to access oracle is presumably not fine. Received on Tue Oct 19 2004 - 21:22:43 CDT