Re: Microsoft meets the Oracle challenge?
From: Guess Who <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: 1999/03/19
Message-ID: <7ctt35$fam$1_at_dosa.alt.net>#1/1
Date: 1999/03/19
Message-ID: <7ctt35$fam$1_at_dosa.alt.net>#1/1
Ketil Z Malde <ketil_at_ii.uib.no> writes:
> ndm_at_shore.net (Norman D. Megill) writes:
>
> > I mean, what they said was a lie, right?
>
> No, it just was very selective in what facts to present, and how they
> were worded in order to mislead the reader. The general impression
> you get is that a $600K HP/MS system is equivalen to a $10M Oracle/Sun
> system, and I bet a lot of people are reading it that way. But the
> marketeers are too smart to say so in so many words, of course.
>
> It's an exceptional piece of work, any politician would have been
> proud.
As Bill Clinton might say, it depends on what your definition of "lie" is. Received on Fri Mar 19 1999 - 00:00:00 CET