Re: The best performance tools??

Ivan Oss wrote:

> So, you liken purchase and/or use of such tools to jumping off a bridge?
> Why? I'll have to admit at this point I've got my market research hat on.
> Hopefully that doesn't put you off.
>
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3E25976A.45395E7C_at_exesolutions.com...
> > Ivan Oss wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Daniel,
> > > I'm inclined to agree with your impression of tools on the market,
> but
> > > they still make a lot of money selling them, so there must be something
> to
> > > them. I never have touched most of the GUI tools available, even from
> > > Oracle. Still, I have to wonder what I'm missing.
> > >
> > > "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3E244B67.CE093DEE_at_exesolutions.com...
> > > > Ivan Oss wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > <snipped because I can take a hint>
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > Bad argument from my standpoint. Lots of people use MS Access but that
> doesn't
> > make it a functional RDBMS. Was MS Word better than Word Perfect? Is Exel
> > better than was Lotus 123.
> >
> > People buy things because PR, marketing, and advertising work.
> >
> > Buy things because YOU need them not because someone else is making a ton
> of
> > money selling them to you.
> >
> > Which BTW is not to say I don't think Qwest and others make good
> serviceable
> > products and I personally use them at times. But jumping off a bridge just
> > because lots of other people do still doesn't make much sense to me.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >

No I liken concluding that something must have value because lots of people buy it to jumping off a bridge. Let me quote the phrase to which I was responding:

"they still make a lot of money selling them, so there must be something to them"

That statement to me could be rewritten as:

"Their marketing campaign is convincing so the product must be good."

In this case I agree that their products are pretty decent ... I was just questioning the logic of the above quoted statement.

Daniel Morgan Received on Sat Jan 18 2003 - 20:23:31 CET