Re: Database market share 2004

Paul wrote:

> I'm not saying that that's a good thing (in fact I'm appalled),

We both are.

> but
> the fact of the matter is that many companies pay for expensive db's
> when in fact they are little more than bitbuckets.
>
> Paul...

I have seen this too. But the solution is not to purchase an inadequate product. The solution is to replace inadequate IT management and, if necessary, inadequate IT staff.

If you can use 3x5 cards don't buy a computer. If you can use a flat file don't use a commercial RDBMS But if data is a valuable asset it needs to be treated as one.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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