RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

"Bad sales Dweeb. No more doughnuts for you!"

"Mad about money my name might suggest,

But good taste about nothing describes me the best."

                                                                                                                   
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Exactly.

In other words, thank the MS-sales-dweeb for his time, and tell him
"bye-bye now", "no-more-sales-for-you".

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

What exactly is your problem?

Lets say that you are a factory that sells paper. You need to buy a computer system.
One supplier also sell printers and the other advocate paperless office. All things being equal, which one will you give your business to??

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:13 AM

This came to our DBA team today.    I'd appreciate your thoughts.   I'm not a business
guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off.   Is it common practice
by MS?

   It is important from an Architecture point of view that we understand    all the various approaches to "web services" (also known as "grid    computing" -- see my recent report).  Microsoft's dot Net initiative is    their approach to this grand overarching software strategy.

   There is a second reason why we might be interested specifically in dot    Net.   Subsidiary XYZ earns $xyz a year for us from

   Microsoft by [performing certain services], etc.  Microsoft has told    our management that one of their criteria for evaluating their vendors    will be how good of a MS customer is the potential vendor.    Specifically, has the vendor  bought in to the dot Net strategy.  Now    we aren't going to make our global enterprise solutions strategy    decisions based upon that point alone, but it's not something we are    going to ignore either.

   Therefore, I support investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net,    but I emphasize the word INVESTIGATING.

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