Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message

> Equally arrogant? No! They'd be absolutely correct. The fact that the
> majority of anything, anywhere, is dumb is not going to surprise anyone,
> anywhere, at any time.
> That doesn't mean that the minority doesn't do a damned good job of
> keeping things running. You have looked at a set of indisputable facts
> and drawn a totally erroneous conclusion.

The 'arrogant' I was referring to was your statement "I could easily beat Indians at their own game". What game are you talking about, given
the context. The only 'game' I am aware of is the low cost of Indians (that is those who are in India, not in North America). I am not sure how an american like you can beat Indians in the cost game.

> I wouldn't even attempt to compete with the Indians, or the Chinese, or
> the Russians, or even the Australians in their area of competence. That
> doesn't mean they are competent at all things in all places.

can't attempt or just can't :-) Given the myopic tendency of american companies to cut cost, I don't see how you can ever compete with
indians on cost. On second thoughts, I can wait for your reply and learn something. I also live here and all this outsourcing will effect me as
much as you.

> You seem to leap from small facts to large conclusions with little
> critical thinking in between.

Thanks for the homely. Now what should I learn about facts from you:-

"we moved an application from SQL Server to oracle and the performance improved without any tuning to 10x". (there is not a single bench mark which proves it).

"Microsoft is using Oracle for its SAP implementation". (despite denial by Microsoft employees). Received on Sun May 09 2004 - 11:11:55 CDT