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Re: drop user hangs

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:22:12 -0700
Message-ID: <1062822113.174316@yasure>


Joel Garry wrote:

>Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<1062654381.528761_at_yasure>...
>
>
>>Joel Garry wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>"unbreakable" ... not even the planet earth. Or haven't you noticed the
>>>>recent news stories about the asteroid
>>>>(http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/02/asteroid.reut/index.html).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Ahhhhh! The sky is falling! We're all gonna die! :-)
>>>
>>>jg
>>>--
>>>@home.com is bogus.
>>>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c3galileo.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Not likely. But I expect after a catastrophic asteroid collision some
>>moron will jump up with an attorney and try to sue Oracle claiming their
>>database is broken and Oracle advertised it to be unbreakable.
>>
>>And I take exception with your statement that "It was presented as
>>technical fact."
>>
>>That's not how I interpreted it. Why would you believe otherwise?
>>
>>
>
>Because it was presented at IOUG Live! 2002 (I think) by an Oracle
>person in a technical session about new Oracle features.
>Unfortunately, the session slides do not seem to be available
>anywhere. I probably have the session name and time written down
>somewhere, but it is not to hand. I didn't believe it at the time,
>but thought it was probably overstating the case. The statement was
>unambiguous, unqualified, and emphasized. But who am I to argue?
>
>jg
>--
>@home.com is bogus.
>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/metro/news_7m4connie.html
>
>

IOUG serves many purposes for Oracle. One is technical evangelism. But another is marketing, promotion, and advertising.

To assume what is presented there is all literal fact strikes me as ... well ... amazing. ;-)

-- 
Daniel Morgan
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Received on Fri Sep 05 2003 - 23:22:12 CDT

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