Re: SQL Server Yukon

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1067277048.821099_at_yasure>...

> >>>seperate date and time datatypes?
> >>>
> >>Why? To what possible gain? Time bereft of date is almost always
> >>meaningless.

Don't know whose comment this was, but what about DATE bereft of TIME? Also DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP data types are part of the SQL standard.

> When a room full of industry professionals (my students) can
> name a dozen or more Microsoft products and still think Oracle is a one
> product company Oracle's marketing staff should be reduce to half-pay until
> they earn the rest of their salary. Pricing wise ... its
> going to change. Because if it doesn't Oracle's marketshare will erode.

Does 70% of Oracle's turnover come from DBMS sales or is it now only a little over 60%? I forget. The point is that Oracle *is* unhealthily dependent on database sales. And yes they are overpriced, but because of the heavy dependence on database sales, if they reduce the prices they hit the bottom line very, very hard. But if they don't they keep losing share, as you say. Meanwhile IBM and Microsoft sell their products at a fraction of the cost. I'm not a financial analyst but to me it seems a nasty position.

DG Received on Mon Oct 27 2003 - 19:03:01 CST