Re: Wishing trolls away

"Anthony W. Youngman" <wol_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<niieTlKkDrpAFwlS_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk>...
> In message <8a529bb.0405151339.1889fdd0_at_posting.google.com>, Mikito
> Harakiri <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com> writes
> >So Pick is dead. Get over it.
>
> I don't think IBM would agree with you :-)
>
> Their sales of U2 are GROWING at double-digit rates. I think they have
> been for the last few years - it's their fastest growing db line, I
> think...

Was the absolute amount also in double digits? Because if they sold $7 worth U2 thingies, which 40% exceded previous year, I'm not impressed. Admittedly, they could set their goal catching application server business, which AFAIK, exceeded $9 last year. At that grouth rate it would take them about 57 years (7*1.4^57=14900000000) to catch on $15B SQL Database market. Received on Sun May 16 2004 - 08:57:00 CEST