Re: Sybase buys Powerbuilder - Is Oracle Dead?

In article <3bl4dg$bgh_at_ccnet.ccnet.com>, Teresa Seputis <teresa_at_ccnet.com> wrote:
>James Mcgovern (sunborn_at_earth.execpc.com) wrote:
>: Oracle being dead has nothing to do with the buyout of powersoft, sybase
>: has a better database !!!
>
>Come on now. The quality of a database does not ensure that it will live.
>Look at INGRES. It was technically the best on the market but poor
>marketing combined with incompetent upper management destroyed this product.
>Now it's just a cash cow for as long as CA can milk the existing Ingres
>customer base.
>
>- teresa
>
> (I've worked with Sybase and INGRES, but never Oracle, so I cannot
> agree or disagree about which is better: oracle or sybase)

You may be a little premature in your judgement on CA. They have dropped INGRES prices and are increasing spending on advertising - actions not consistent with milking an existing cutomer base.

John

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