Re: Is Oracle SQL99 Compliant?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:36:14 -0800
Message-ID: <41e89db3$1_1@127.0.0.1>

JEDIDIAH wrote:

> On 2005-01-14, Jack <none_at_mail.com> wrote:
>

>>
>>>There are literally thousands of locked in, unhappy customers out there 
>>>paying through their nose for their DBMS, not being able to move because 
>>>it would cost millions of dollars in labour - and the vendor knows it.
>>
>>And there are tens (hundreds) of thousands happy customers with proprietary 
>>DBMS.
>>TCO is what means, DBMS expenses are pennies. And hardware cost almost 

>
>
> Are we still talking about the same product here? This is an Oracle
> group isn't it? Pennies for for an Oracle DBMS? What are you on?
>
> Being locked into Oracle is a brutal thing actually.

Yeah. Not at all like the freedom one experiences with an AS400.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Received on Fri Jan 14 2005 - 22:36:14 CST