Re: database market share 2003

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:03:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1087308242.153441@yasure>

Buck Nuggets wrote:

> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Noons) wrote in message news:<73e20c6c.0406142335.272026fe_at_posting.google.com>...
>

>>Absolute total and utter nonsense. SAP, Siebel, JD Edwards and many 
>>others were written FIRST for IBM mainframe environments.  That is 
>>where their origin lies.  To claim that they "moved away" from 
>>Oracle is the perfect definition of historical revisionism a-la IBM!

>
>
> Will you get over it already? You're filling the newsgroups up with
> crap - apparently out of some weird need to downplay IBM's market
> share.
>
> Although an analysis of these trends is interesting - it certainly
> isn't when subject to this kind of bullshit.
>
> Just let it go....
>
> buck

Buck ... your protest would be far more genuine if you just acknowledged the fact that what Noon wrote is correct. These systems all started on IBM mainframes. Ask me how I know. ;-)

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