Re: troll

From: Matt Emmerton <memmerto_at_nospam.yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:27:15 -0400
Message-ID: <pYudnZ5SyOQCB3TfRVn-gg@rogers.com>

"Buck Nuggets" <bucknuggets_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1122595205.815086.41980_at_z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> you could at least make your trolling a little less obvious:
>
> - stating that the number of books = product viability is pretty
> primitive logic. I think most of us are aware of the connection
> between name recognition and massive book purchases by aspiring
> technologies (see all the php/mysql books for dummies, etc).
>
> - stating that ibm is only good at mainframes will be caught by
> anyone paying attention to the industry - and familiar with
> Power5/PowerPC CPUs, pseries & xseries hardware, websphere, db2, etc.
>
> - stating that you actually like db2 and then complaining about ibm's
> marketing is bizarre. The only database that's got more low-key
> marketing than db2 is postgresql - and it doesn't have a vendor!

What would you call http://www.enterprisedb.com? Sure, they haven't reached "commercial release" status now but they definitely look like a commercial vendor to me!

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Matt Emmerton

Received on Thu Jul 28 2005 - 21:27:15 CDT