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

On 21 May 2001 15:48:08 -0700, irishboyca_at_rocketmail.com (Mairhtin O'Feannag) wrote:

>*deleting offensive stuff*
>
>You people are pissing up a rope. The major difference here, in this discussion,
>is that the IBM responses are considered, careful, and polite.

And incorrect, ignorant and misleading in their statements about the "competition".

> This Nuno Souto
>person delights in name calling, obvious sales trumps by Oracle and his own
>VERY limited experiences.

Mind quoting where I called a name to anybody? And if you think ORACLE pays me, you're so far off it's not even funny...

>
>The truth of the matter is that ORACLE is an old technology, re-written on MANY
>different platforms, with differing code bases. That's from an Oracle engineer
>who happens to be my friend.

Your "friend" has led you astray.

>
>UDB is taking market share from ORACLE because it is better and cheaper.

Correction: it's cheaper. IBM is buying off market share. They can afford it, why not? Just don't call it something it isn't.

>marketplace is where one wins, NOT in a silly rant about "my penis is bigger than
>yours, you idiot" - which is precisely what this has degenerated into.

Ooohhh, and I'm name-calling?

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 18:05:19 CDT