Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk>
Date: 2000/03/09
Message-ID: <8a70jn$25qn$2@adenine.netfront.net>#1/1

In comp.databases.sybase mike.spooner_at_hil.hftrust.com wrote:

>> > Ffej wrote:

>> > And lets all remember that Xerox stole the icon concept from work
done
>> > by Egyptians thousands of years ago (who, in turn, probably got it
>> > from cave paintings). The sad, brutal truth is that given how many
>> > people have lived before us, the concept of an "original ideal"
today
>> > is almost absurd. Everything any culture on the planet has today is
>> > ALL built on somebody else's work.

> Yeah, but not everyone tries to pass off the ideas of others > as their own - only Microsoft, Sun, IBM, etc, etc, etc, etc. :-(

Who doesn't :-)

Oracle, Sybase, Informix, etc,etc.

http://www.input.com/public/article25.cfm?research_id=330

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Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 00:00:00 CST