Re: ORACLE RAC CRASHES ORBITZ
> http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801 > ,83186,00.html > Someone at Oracle needs to run to the marketing department and have them pull all of their 'Unbreakable' advertising. Pride goeth before a fall. That much arrogance deserves a little humbling. It was only a matter of time. What humans can build, humans can break. The only thing less intelligent than that marketing campaign is the person who falls for it. How many of us have been in meetings called by management at the instigation of an sales rep who then goes on and on about how ALL of your problems will go away if you buy their product? Most of the time, they do not even know the business of the company.
Tom Longfellow wrote: > > http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801 > > ,83186,00.html > > > Someone at Oracle needs to run to the marketing department and have them > pull all of their 'Unbreakable' advertising.<snipped> And next, of course, you will have them run to the marketing department at P&G and have them pull the advertising about Whiter Whites and Brighter Brights. And those Crest advertisements about their toothpaste ... positively disgusting. Why my teeth are yellow and I've been brushing with their product for years. Which part of "marketing" don't you get. Nothing is unbreakable. One moron can break anything. "Unbreakable" is marketing talk for "really really robust." Anyone with only enough mental horsepower to believe what comes out of marketing departments doesn't have the mental capacity needed to install the product. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)
GOD!! sometimes I just HATE the internet. It is too easy to be misinterpreted. My suggestions were tongue in cheek. I TOTALLY get marketing. I was just commenting on how marketing departments can embarrass their companies. I get the marketing. Read my entire post > > And next, of course, you will have them run to the marketing > department at P&G and have them pull the advertising about Whiter > Whites and Brighter Brights. And those Crest advertisements about > their toothpaste ... positively disgusting. Why my teeth are yellow > and I've been brushing with their product for years. and when Crest starts making claims that you will have 'unbreakable' teeth, they will have crossed the same over-hype barrier that Oracle did. Unbreakable is, in my opinion, Unbelievable and not even within the realms of possibility > Which part of "marketing" don't you get. > > Nothing is unbreakable. One moron can break anything. MY POINT EXACTLY - read the post - "What humans can build, humans can break." > > "Unbreakable" is marketing talk for "really really robust." Anyone > with only enough mental horsepower to believe what comes out of > marketing departments doesn't have the mental capacity needed to > install the product. AGAIN, MY POINT EXACTLY: "The only thing less intelligent than that marketing campaign is the person who falls for it. " ------ And speaking of intelligence, continuing this discussion is a waste of time for both of us. I should not even have replied to this one, but I was replying before I remembered that internet newsgroups are terrible places for differences of opinion. That misinterpretation thing again.
Tom Longfellow wrote: > GOD!! sometimes I just HATE the internet. It is too easy to be > misinterpreted. My suggestions were tongue in cheek. I TOTALLY get > marketing. I was just commenting on how marketing departments can > embarrass their companies. > > <snipped> This is why emoticons were invented. ;-) Sorry if I didn't see your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. Unfortunately PT Barnum was correct. And we will be dealing with the effluent of marketing departments right up until customers use their own brains and stop buying the drivel they produce. And that will not be in our lifetimes. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)