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Re: Online Dataspam books

From: Chuck Whealton <chuck_whealton_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 28 Dec 2006 17:59:30 -0800
Message-ID: <1167357569.966636.101290@n51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

What's in a namespace wrote:
> "Steve Howard" <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht
> news:1167330214.849234.222180_at_n51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Chuck Whealton wrote:> differentiate the two.... It looks like they're
> > charging regular
> >> prices for downloading the electronic versions of the books they sell.
> >>
> >
> > You go farther than I did, then LOL! I went to the first page and all
> > I saw were ads for consulting services. The books I did see, or a
> > least one of them, was for Oracle 7, LOL!
> >
>
> Some books are really there (but ooooooooooooold), if you use the 'shadow'
> site links (mostly russian), like Oracle 7 on Win95
>
> .....

Yea, I got a really great laugh out of the one product they had a URL pointing to called "Izenda". And the line that said "Every time someone downloads Izenda for ASP.NET a DBA loses a job".

I imagine they thought the same thing would be true of COBOL.

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com Received on Thu Dec 28 2006 - 19:59:30 CST

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