Re: selecting a column according to a minimum

Mark Townsend wrote:

> 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.
>
> As long as he
> 1) doesn't rebadge it
> 2) provide it to someone else
> 3) reverse engineer it
> 4) publish performance comparisons without Oracle's consent
> then he is a free as anybody else to trial the software
>
> So I think it's more IBM's own internal policies that stops him from
> doing so

That's my read on it. I know a lot of IBM employees working in Oracle.

Of course they're all trying to sell hardware. And many wish the DB2 folks would just go away and quit messing up their sales. ;-)

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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