Re: Wrapped PLSQL

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:02:34 GMT
Message-ID: <_BKv9.8434$iW.19986@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>

No,its not. That's like saying there isn't a difference between someone who writes a best selling novel and someone who buys a novel and sells it. Granted there is some talent in figuring out what novel to buy and promote, but an order of magnitude less difficult than writing one from scratch and prompting it successfully.

MS is a marketing organization NOT a software company. Jim

"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message news:Xns92B6E8832E26Epingottpingottbah_at_209.189.89.243...
> Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in
> news:43suru4495cif1qveecro9dijc1r9t3eqt_at_4ax.com:
>
> > On 29 Oct 2002 12:23:43 -0600, Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote:
> >
> >>Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in
> >>news:5bjtru0k6o8lco0e5d2gij2rmsso39n70g_at_4ax.com:
> >>
> >>> They have been purposively wrapped as not to give away some crown
> >>> jewels, and to avoid to have Bill Gates build an Oracle clone.
> >>
> >>I don't know what the incentive would be for Microsoft to build an
> >>Oracle clone. They have MS SQL.
> >
> >
> > Did MS ever *invent* (as opposed to buy or usually steal) anything?
> >
>
> It's irrelevant whether MS _invents_ or buys anything. The point is
> they already _have_ (bought the base and built on top of) an RDBMS.
> --
> Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
> http://www.hpdbe.com
Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 00:02:34 CST