Re: DB2 entering Wall Street. Will Oracle be left behind??

Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:18:27 GMT, Ed Stevens said (and I quote):
> Perhaps, but we were running the business here on IBM mainframes for nearly 20
> years before the outsource deal. So the fact that we have the machines is

uh-huh.

> >
> >> there's hardly a blue server or piece of software to be found. When the client
> >> company (my former employer) buys servers, software or additional services (new
> >> project development) we have to bid on it just like any other vendor, and we
> >> don't always win.
> >
> >and the point is?
>
> That signing an outsource deal with IGS doesn't turn a shop blue, and doesn't

but, you people were already blue! How is that proof it doesn't?

> And back to
> the original post -- that it doesn't portend the end of life as we in the Oracle
> world know it.

Now, you're tawkin! ;)

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Nuno Souto
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