No I don't believe they want to clone Oracle. Just saying they don't
actually invent a lot of things themselves. They don't do a lot of original
work (which is what Sybrand is suggesting). Yes, there have been cases
where they outright stole the source code from a competitor. (remeber in the
Windows 3 days that company that created that compression program, what wat
their name.)
Jim
"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message
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> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-family_at_attbi.com> wrote in
> news:_BKv9.8434$iW.19986_at_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.
>
> Argh!!!!!!!!!! Okay, this is going to go anywhere ... if you all want
> to believe that MS would want to clone Oracle from its source, go for
> it. They certainly have enough man-power to reverse it if they wanted
> to.
> --
> Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
> http://www.hpdbe.com
Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 08:17:49 CST
