Re: Open Source Oracle?

On 2004-09-13, Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote:
> Mark C. Stock wrote:
>
>
>> | HJR
>>
>> if i can get oracle 8 open source, why would i buy 9i? 10g?
>
> Ask the question slightly differently. If I can get a
> wordprocessor/spreadsheet/office suite for free, why would I buy Microsoft
> Office?
>
> Well, oddly enough, 85%+ of users still do. Because it's slick, it's smooth,
> it works (mostly). And everyone else is using it. And (in theory at least)

        No, not at all. People buy msoffice because they want to communicate with other people that use msoffice and that's really the only truely reliable way to do so.

        People buy msoffice because of the xls and doc file types.

> if anything goes wrong, there's a bloody great software company that will
> help me sort it out.

        You've got to be kidding.

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