Re: Database market share 2004

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> Oh, the data is valuable alright and in use by Blue Chip companies
>> across the world, many of whom would be clients of a certain large
>> aerospace manufacturing company situated in Washington State that you
>> can't talk about - United Airlines is an example of such client.
 

>> It could well be that the UA dba's are tearing their hair out, but
>> they're probably not the ones who made the purchasing decision about
>> the s/ware, and rocking the boat mightn't do their careers any good.

>No but on purely theoretical grounds, because I know we are NOT talking
>about United Airlines, they MUST be compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley.
>Compliance is not optional ... it is mandatory.

Maybe they are compliant? Why does using a db as a bitbucket make you uncompliant? (DRI is enforced in the creation scripts). Maybe you could point me to a site that gives an overview of Sarbanes-Oxley for the non-specialist accountant (obviously I can Google, but you might have a good one handy?).

I know for a fact that this company has UA as a client, but there may be wheels within wheels - web interfaces that connect to systems (which may be outside the US or may not be) and which take data from them (possibly old mainframe TPF type systems) which are possibly compliant? I'm not exactly sure where the buck stops and I would imagine that there would be lots of fingerpointing if anyone was looking at any time in the slammer. Suits and countersuits... maybe I should have done law?

>So refer to the simulated conversation above. Management can not and
>will not break federal law to save a few dollars. It just isn't going
>to happen. Not after Enron. Not after WorldCom. Not after ....

As I said, I'm not privy to the higher echelons of the arrangements these companies have made with each other - if you're interested I could give you a brief outline offline...

Paul...

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