Re: Database market is saturated fully, there is no more room!!

Yes Martin,

But -- When the system crashes and CEO calls the CIO on the carpet the CIO -- not you -- has to defend the practices of the IS department. Worse yet, the CEO is liable to call in the auditors or some high powered consulting firm in order to cover his/her ass, and they only know about expensive products from big vendors. If you are in a very large organization and your data base crashes and you are running Postgres on Linux you and the CIO may be looking for new jobs, but if you are running Oracle on NT or Sun your paycheck isn't endangered. I realize that since you are reading this newsgroup you probably have the technical skills to get another job as good as the one you have -- in terms of quality of work and money, but that is often not the case with the CIO.

Regards

Jerry

martin.spott_at_notexistent.org wrote:
>
> AI Group External User 2 <csx2ai_at_surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > [...] In a business environment, I need control and accountability, and last
> > of all an ass to kick to ensure my bottom line does not fall through the floor.
> [...]
>
> To kick someone's ass actually doesn't get your system up and running if it
> broke down. Sybase on Linux would compete against Sybase on SCO and WinNT.
> I bet a skilled sysadmin gets your Linux system up by hand much quicker than
> by kicking the ass of some SCO or Microsoft support staff !
> And you'll need at least the Microsoft staff much more often ....
>
> Martin.
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> martin "at" quickstep "punkt" dirnet "punkt" com
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> Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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Received on Sat Feb 21 1998 - 00:00:00 CST