Re: Incompetent Oracle Support

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:46:47 +0530
Message-ID: <8bg56hFnlmU1_at_mid.individual.net>

Yes it was meant to be a soccer pun.
An did don't see where the discrimination lies.

In clear text:
I was stating that accepting a competitor's API as an industry standard is akin of learning another language.
Adding an API (language) to ones skill set increases ones applicability in the market and does not imply a technical (or cultural) defeat as was alleged.

I'm sure Rolls Royce did not laugh when Ford and other non British companies built their first cars with a steering wheel on the right side.

What this does do is acknowledge that there is a major market using the API and the clear intent to attack that market.

I'm not even going to comment on this old same-code-base chestnut. It's getting truly lame.

As far as "dumping" is concerned I think it implies that you are selling under production cost. Germany has (had?) a similar law. If giving away the initial (as opposed to maintenance!) license of a software product would be illegal then presumably there is no legal mySQL in Australia or Germany?

Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
SQL Architect DB2 for LUW
IBM Toronto Lab

Received on Fri Jul 30 2010 - 09:16:47 CDT