Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

Part of the problem is that software is such an intangible thing. If you're going to spend a significant amount of money, you want be able to justify your purchase, & feel that you got your money's worth. An unsophisticated or inexperienced computer user is not going have a sense of how well a given piece of software meets his or her needs. So the easiest thing is to look at the list of features on the box and see what you get for the price. If you can get Product X for $79 and it has 10 features but Acme UltraProfessional 1997 has 625 features (plus a free 900 nHz cordless phone) for $299, well, features per buck, AU2 is pretty damn near a bargain.

The mags have a similar (but not exactly the same) problem when they review the software. They need to quantify this intangible software thing, in order to maintain the journalistic fiction of being unbiased, so they have to create some "objective" criteria by which to rate them.

In article <O46Z2.1629$yr2.743_at_news.indigo.ie>,   "Brendan Reynolds" <brenreyn_at_indigo.ie> wrote:
> [deletia...]
> Persuading the buyers to want your product is only one
> part of marketing. Producing the product that the buyers want is the
other
> part. I think the buyers want features. You and I may not think that
the
> buyers need all those features, but I think they want them, and
software
> publishers give them what they want. If enough people decide that
they want
> more stability and less features, will software publishers try to
convince
> them otherwise?
> [...additional deletia]

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