Agreed. PROGRESS is what, 1% of the market these days? Hardly a contender
among the "big three".
Strange -- yet another automobile analogy -- GM/Ford/DaimlerChrysler,
Honda/Toyota/Nissan, BMW/Mercedes/Audi, etc.
Stranger -- I just realized I'm wearing a Progress ASPEN 2000 T-shirt.
--
Matt
"Larry" <larry_at_nospam.net> wrote in message
news:j%aKe.25277$sf6.6155_at_fe08.lga...
> Well ... that's fair enough. Very fair. I just don't consider Oracle,
> SQL Server, or DB2 in that category.
>
> Larry E.
>
> rkusenet wrote:
>
> >
> > "Larry" <larry_at_nospam.net> wrote in message
> > news:aV9Ke.25166$sf6.16572_at_fe08.lga...
> >
> >> You're "analogy" doesn't really work ... when was the last time you
> >> went shopping for a car where
> >> Sorry ... you can keep coming back to challenge if you want. Go talk
> >> to Gartner or one of the big consulting firms and ask them if DB2 is a
> >> good investment as a rdmbs ... and whether they think IBM will be
> >> around for awhile to support it.
> >
> >
> > My analogy was not talking about DB2 in particular. I was talking about
> > general principles followed when going for a RDBMS.
> > I have been to situations when the customer told us to make our product
> > work with
> > SQL Server bcos they enterprise standard is oracle/sql server and not
> > informix.
> >
> > A friend of mine works in PROGRESS technology and he too is saying that
> > many customers tell them to make their product work with SQL Server or
> > Oracle. His company is going to release their next version with O and
SS.
> > So I guess it will be a question of time before they kiss goodbye to
> > Progress.
> >
> > You don't think market share has anything to do with it.
> >
> >
> >
Received on Tue Aug 09 2005 - 21:52:08 CDT
