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Re: Oracle or mySQL

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:56:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1099184135.903634@yasure>


Mark Townsend wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>

>> michael newport wrote:
>>
>>> or you can use Ingres.
>>> this is also OpenSource,
>>> and it does the same as Oracle, without the licence fee.
>>>
>>> http://ca.com/technologies/subsolution.jsp?id=4900
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Michael Newport
>>
>>
>>
>> Please go away. You have reached troll status and obviously have nothing
>> of value to contribute related to DB2 or Oracle usenet groups.
>>
>> We don't post promotions for our tools at c.d.ingress please show
>> us the courtesy of promoting your product elsewhere or at least
>> reading the groups charter, respecting it, and not spamming us.
>>
>> Thank you.

>
>
> FYI
> In the last month, a person identifying themselves as Michael Newport
> has posted
> 28 messages to c.d.ibm-db2 extolling the virtues of Ingres, all of them
> completely unsolicited
> 27 messages to c.d.oracle extolling the virtues of Ingres, all of them
> completely unsolicited
> 1 message to c.d.oracle.misc extolling the virtues of Ingress, all of
> them completely unsolicited
>
> In the same period, there were over 250 new threads started in
> comp.databases.ingres, with various requests for help and information
> about Ingres.
>
> The identity Michael Newport answered none of them. Zero.

Thanks Mark. Pretty much the definition of a troll. If you haven't already you might want to share these stats with our friends in the DB2 group too.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Sat Oct 30 2004 - 19:56:33 CDT

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