Re: Bad Generalisations by Don Burleson

In article <3CD948CD.8E5F161C_at_exesolutions.com>, Daniel says...
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>Nuno Souto wrote:
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>> In article <abb96m$b8f$1_at_violet.singnet.com.sg>, you said (and I quote):
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>> > "Don Burleson has written 12 books, published over 70 articles in national
>> > magazines, and is editor in chief of Oracle Internals. "
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>> Hehehe! Hear that, Tom, Steve and Jonathan? You've only written one
>> book, so that makes you much less competent in your advice. Sy, Niall,
>> Howard and so many others here: we're all just a bunch of ignoramus who
>> can't write a book if our lifes depended on it.
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>> Starting to look like the number of written books and articles (mostly by
>> junior personnel but "re-named" appropriately, of course) is the
>> benchmark for Oracle competency.
>> <rolling the eyes...>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Nuno Souto
>> nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
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>Just a second here. Tom's written three books according to a quick glance at my
>bookcase.
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>Expert One on One: Oracle
>Beginning Oracle Programming
>Professional Oracle 8i Enterprise Application Development

"Contributed to two, wrote one by himself" would be more accurate.

o Expert One on One -- thats all me.
o Beginnining Oracle Progamming -- technical edits and wrote 3 chapters o Professional Oracle 8i EAD -- technical edits and wrote 1 chapter

And actually -- in Don's defense -- if you read my Bio (eg: the bio I used for the recent AOTC conference for example), it reads "similarly". They are supposed to (aren't they?) ;)

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>And thank you Hemant.
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>Daniel Morgan
>

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