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Re: Are Oracle GUIs causing a decline in DBA salaries?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:06:57 +0100
Message-ID: <3eaee94f$0$29713$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>


"Frank" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message news:3EAEE64E.7050901_at_netscape.net...
> Peter wrote:
>
> >
> > Is MS Windows taking over Linux and Unix? People say MS Windows will
> > continue to do better and better technologically, overtaking Unix,
> > therefore graphical interface will be more important.
> >
> Bill Gates:
>
> "If you can't get it to work properly, at least
> make it look good".

Never said.
>
> "The internet is a hype. Windows will not have internet access"

Never said

> "640kB is not a barrier, as there will never be any program
> requiring more memory than 640kB"

Very common quote or variations therof - no-one can quite pin down where or when it was said.

There are plenty of arguments for *nix over windows, those based on untruths seem to me unhelpful.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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