Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: michael@preece.net (Mike Preece) Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: dbms/rdbms software & its environment Date: 30 Oct 2003 03:18:19 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1b0b566c.0310300318.7373dfd4@posting.google.com> References: <3LTnb.170156$bo1.73616@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <64ea97cf.0310292012.4d6c2070@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.158.40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1067512699 17221 127.0.0.1 (30 Oct 2003 11:18:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:22263 brennie@dcsi.net.au (Bruce) wrote in message news:<64ea97cf.0310292012.4d6c2070@posting.google.com>... > > > Just don't expect many of the major commercial interests to make any > changes until their customers realise that there is something better > and that will only come with appropriate education. So: Appropriate education ==> Customer awareness ==> Commercial interests? Are customers influenced more by education or the major commercial interests? Maybe it's more like: Commercial interests ==> Market saturation ==> Appropriate Education?