Re: Good News for MS Windows users: Your favorite database is here..

I am really,really,really sorry about this post... I know it's childish but I just couldn't help myself ( actually I can only take credit for the second verse and the chorus ).

Sing along to the tune of Copacabana by Barry Manilow...

His name was Nuno,
He was a consultant,
With Oracle manuals under his chair,
And a dress cut down to there,
He would argue,
And do the cha-cha
But while he tried to be a star,
The IBMers were at the bar,
Across the machine room floor,
He worked from 8 til 4,
He was young and he had Oracle,
Who could ask for more?

At the Compa,
Compa.ibm-db2,
The hottest spot north of Havana,
At the Compa,
Compa.ibm-db2,
Insults and passion are always in fashion, At the Compa,
He kept his cool.

His name was Rico,
He was an IBMer,
He had come to install DB2,
And flush Nuno down the loo,
And when he'd finished,
He called him a loser,
But Rico went a bit too far,
Nuno cried and called him a liar,
And then the postings flew,
Poor Nuno snapped in two,
There was blood and sarcastic comments,
But just who flamed who ?

At the Compa,
Compa.ibm-db2,
The hottest spot north of Havana,
At the Compa,
Compa.ibm-db2,
Insults and passion are always in fashion, At the Compa,
He lost his cool.

His name was Nuno,
He was a consultant,
But that was 30 years ago,
When he used to have a job.
Now it's all DB2,
But not for Nuno,
Still in the dress he used to wear,
No more manuals under his chair.
He sits there mortified,
And drinks himself half-blind,
He's lost his peepshow booth and he's lost his database, Now he's lost his mind.  

At the Compa,
Compa.ibm-db2,
The hottest spot north of Havana,
At the compa,
Compa.ibm-db2,
Insults and passion are always in fashion, At the Compa,
Don't lose your hair. Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 18:06:20 CDT