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

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:<3eaf8105$0$4860$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> "Peter" <peter_at_nomorenewsspammin.ca> wrote in message
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> > He said Windows is better than Unix. Did he ever say that?
>
> I suspect that he may have claimed, and MS certainly has, that Windows is to
> be preferred to Unix for a number of reasons. I doubt that many of the
> arguments will be technical though, but to do with business cases.

It may be embarrassing to unix advocates, but bg did used to own Xenix ( a pc unixalike from years ago). He may well have been ahead of the curve. And of course there are those who think certain DOS was unix-derived (something I find both insulting and perhaps true).

As for the "Windows is better than Unix," search slashdot for stuff like Steve Ballmer saying linux is the greatest threat. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/10/1947202&mode=thread

The 640K stuff: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15180#fn*

jg

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