Re: RDB Sold to Oracle! Damn!

In article <1994Aug28.165725.41379_at_slate.mines.colorado.edu>, mbarkah_at_slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah) writes...
>Daniel Druker (ddruker_at_netcom.com) wrote:
>: engelincg_at_decus.se (Claes Engelin) writes:
>: >>
>: >> "Digital Equipment Corp., reached a preliminary agreement to sell its
>: >> database software unit to Oracle Corp. for about $100 million, people
>: >> familiar with the discussions said."
>: >> [...]
 

>: The whole idea is that it will make both Digital and Oracle stronger. It
>: would only be a stupid deal if Digital and Oracle did not agree on the
>: correct price. The market seems to think that it is a good deal - The
>: stock of both companies rose on the WSJ announcement.
>
>Digital will be happy, Oracle will be happy... how about the current
>customers ?
>
>-Ade Barkah

In this case, I think that the product offered to the customer over the next 3-5 years will be much better than what would have been offered in the same time frame if Rdb remained status quo in Digitals software world. The deal is not for just the software, but the engineers, the support people, the people that documented the product, wrote courses....etc. The *exact same* person will be handling a customer support call tomorrow as today.

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