Re: feature & performance comparison

From: Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:59:17 +0200
Message-ID: <992332911.1915776868@news.cis.dfn.de>

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Srini Venigalla wrote:
>
>Well, Orthogonality is the best kept secret of the SQL implementation. It would save
>companies such as Microsoft and Oracle tons of money (by not having to support
>multiple custom features).

Um. King Larry speaks, in the early '80s:

"How about if we lock our users in with this custom feature set, then they can't just drop Oracle and move off to another database?"

Nah, nobody would be that dumb, would they? Received on Tue Jun 12 2001 - 02:59:17 CDT