Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:34:31 -0700
Message-ID: <1098927212.839665_at_yasure>
>
>
> its answers the users needs.
> and it was written by the dealine.
> which meant my company got paid.
> although some of this money was then sent to Oracle to pay for the
> licence.
> if we had used Ingres we could have done the same job for less, or
> increased our profits.
>
> If you are talking about Oracle report server, I will agree with you.
> if you are talking about JAVA then you need to thank SUN not Oracle.
> But technology for its own sake is a waste of money.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:34:31 -0700
Message-ID: <1098927212.839665_at_yasure>
michael newport wrote:
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1098752193.942650@yasure>...
>
>>michael newport wrote: >> >> >>>I am now (1 year) working with Oracle and my work involves doing the >>>same stuff that I did with Ingres (see previous post). >> >>That's not the fault of the product. That direct and proximate >>responsibility falls on you for being a dinosaur. How much code have >>you implemented with bulk binding? How much with the model clause? >>How much with analytic functions? How many materialized views with >>refresh logs?
>
>
> its answers the users needs.
> and it was written by the dealine.
> which meant my company got paid.
> although some of this money was then sent to Oracle to pay for the
> licence.
> if we had used Ingres we could have done the same job for less, or
> increased our profits.
Had you used Ingres the customer likely would have hired a firm that knew how to work in a real database. Your firm would have been paid $0 and you'd be unemployed.
>>Why not just admit that you have reached the point in your life >>where you want technology to stop and let you keep doing what you >>did in neolithic times.
>
> If you are talking about Oracle report server, I will agree with you.
> if you are talking about JAVA then you need to thank SUN not Oracle.
> But technology for its own sake is a waste of money.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 03:34:31 CEST