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Re: Database market share 2004

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 21:18:22 -0700
Message-ID: <1117512970.465680@yasure>


Noons wrote:

>>"Few users are acquiring Oracle for the Linux platform without the RAC option," the Gartner
>>report states.

>
> They gotta be joking...

They aren't joking ... they ARE a joke.

If Oracle was selling that many RAC licenses IBM would be out of business.

>>We're saying .
>>integrate it seamlessly into the database. All the people who thought we had four heads and
>>eight eyes, you look at the strategies of our competitors, they're starting to go down the
>>same path we started down years ago."

>
> Amazing. IE versus Netscape all over again. And people
> STILL buy this crap...

Worked once: And as P.T. Barnum said ....

> Im summary, another typical Gartner report: wanna see who
> is in front? Who pays more?

That's the way the work. Opinions for sale to the highest bidder.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Mon May 30 2005 - 23:18:22 CDT

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