Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

From: Blair Kenneth Adamache <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:20:42 -0400
Message-ID: <3AD1B72A.B93F1A6A@ca.ibm.com>

When is 9i available?

Regarding the challenge: we won't know if Oracle lost any of these because they enforce confidentiality in the agreement:

"By registering for this offer or participating, you: (a) agree that your dealings with us in connection with this offer, including the results of any testing conducted to measure website performance, are confidential and you may not disclose details or information regarding these dealings to any third party without our prior written permission..."

Nuno Souto wrote:

> On 9 Apr 2001 05:16:52 GMT, stolze_at_us.ibm.com (Knut Stolze) wrote:
>
> >It is surely known inside IBM. It was pointed out (at least to me) that the
> >one deciding whether a customer is allowed to participate or not is Oracle!!
>
> IMHO, whoever came up with this one at ORACLE should be summarily
> fired. There are many advantages to the 9i distributed cache, and
> there are as many other ways of promoting it than this sort of
> MS-ism...
>
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 08:20:42 CDT