Re: Oracle sucks!
From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 2 May 2003 17:34:48 -0700
Message-ID: <91884734.0305021634.64814aa_at_posting.google.com>
Date: 2 May 2003 17:34:48 -0700
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henryl_at_bengaldevelopment.com (Henry Lafleur) wrote in message news:<30f1a81b.0305021008.3e9aa649_at_posting.google.com>...
> I would say that Oracle is an exception, probably because it's user
> base comes out of the Unix community which is much friendlier than the
> Windows community. You can't run SQL Server much less connect to it
> from Linux without either a reverse engineered (open source) driver or
> a very expensive one that requires a Windows component.
A quibble: Oracle came out of the VMS community, which is arguably closer to the NT kernel community... :-)
But then DEC blew it and some of us advocated unix, and the rest, as they say, is history.
jg
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