RE: Re[2]: Oracle 911 Article

From: Rognes, Sten <Sten.Rognes_at_schwab.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:06:54 -0700
Message-ID: <A252B2CDF6D2D4119DAB0002A51326DE20333D17@n1028smx.nt.schwab.com>

>> There are silver bullets indeed. BTW, I do lay claim to being one
>> of the first people to commonly use this term to describe unreachable
>> "holy grails". It was used a lot by Ingres marketeers and I got the
>> trait from them. It was out of favour for a long time but since I've
>> used it again in c.d.o.s. a coupla years ago, it came back into favour.

I first saw the silver bullet term used in Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month (1974) in the "No silver bullet - essence and accident" essay to describe the "quick relieves" approach in this context. I would not be surprised if that's were the Ingres marketers got the term from.. ?

Sten

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