Re: Is this a good situation for an Index ?

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f7a6f0c$0$13416$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message news:91884734.0309301434.60b07c0b_at_posting.google.com...
> >
> > I find the implication that sqlserver is not profitable very
> > interesting.
> >
> > MS has just started paying dividends, which may be seen as reacting to
> > the political and stock market climate, or conversely as a company
> > maturing into a steady income stream from maintenance and upgrades.
> > If the latter, it would make sense to bundle sqlserver, especially if
> > it is not profitable to begin with.
> >
>
> Well, it reminds me of DEC's RDB. A great product that never
> took off in a big way. So, it became bundled. Only to be
> eventually sold to Oracle in what can only be described
> as a lunatic financial arrangement...

Yeah, Larry is crazy like a fox :-)

Definitely an example of why technical superiority is not the determinant of marketplace success. I think what happened is few places that had working RMS based systems saw any value in converting to R, even with k001 systems like mine that could work with both simply by being designed with R principles and a simple abstraction layer. As a result, many growing places that would be implementing new systems were open to complete packages written in some other db. Then Oracle blew them all away by taking over the secret world government or something. :-)

>
> M$ however has the clout to push SS as the underlying
> data manager. That is gonna be mighty difficult to
> counter. Oracle has a chance now, but I still doubt it.
> IBM has bugger all chance, so they might as well give up
> selling another licence on Windows. What that is gonna do
> to UDB, I don't know...

I think that is the basic reason Larry is pushing taking over the apps market. I also think that Oracle necessarily will lose the low-end, and likely the middle. But maybe he knows something we don't. Think the high-end will be a battle between IBM and O? Lotsa big iron still out there...

jg

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