Re: Oracle 8i or 9i ???

Ok, I also much appreciate input from oracle's EMP's, don't misunderstand me.
They are closest to the sources of all. I never worked for marketing or sales, I
worked for Oracle support for five years and I know from experience that there's a workaround for almost all of the so called bugs (if not it's a P1).

Daniel, Pete and others, please accept my apologies if I didn't recognize your honest
contributions to this NG. I just would like to see my customer use the best database
version that Oracle has because it gives the best performance results for their
java websphere webapplication.

Regards,
Andre

"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> schreef in bericht news:3ccbaffc$0$227$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com...
> "Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
> news:aaf34u01a28_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> > The main thing that I try NOT to do (and I suspect the others have a
> similar
> > viewpoint) is to talk marketing speak. If we do something like that,
> huess what
> > would happen? You guys and gals would immediately say "They're from
> Oracle.
> > They're just trying to push Oracle rather than answer the question."
> > We're trying to add technical value. We're not trying to sell you on
> something.
> > It's not that we don't have "the guts to promote Oracle9i more". 9i to
me
> is a
> > great product that I don't believe our competition can match, but if I
try
> to
> > sell that to you, it would be ignored. That's why I simply try to
answer
> > questions from a technical perspective. If that means people thing I
lack
> guts,
> > so be it.
>
> rest assured you guys do add a very great deal of technical value. My
> impression of the (at least active) posters to this set of NG is that
there
> is sufficient nous here to distinguish between marketing and valid
technical
> pros and cons. FWIW I also believe that Oracle is a great product,
certainly
> in advance of SQL which is your competitor I know best. (Of course a price
> reduction would be nice<G>).
>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 28 2002 - 15:48:14 CDT