Re: Oracle V Informix

We'll all support you in your ambition:-) Malcolm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 4:09 PM Subject: Re: Oracle V Informix > Daniel Morgan wrote: > > > Ronald Cole wrote: > > > >>Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > >>>Daniel Morgan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>But if we are database professionals that is different from being > >>>>marketing professionals. Mark > >>>>and Obnoxio are paid to have a religious zeal: That is their job. May > >>>>they do it well and with gust. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>Did you just call me a marketing professional? Would you care to step > >>>outside and repeat that remark? I'm not paid to have the particular > >>>religious zeal of which you accuse me, it's purely a personal preference. > >>>I've worked enough with other databases to know what I like. > >>> > >>>And I only hope you meant "gusto". > >> > >>No, I think he was calling you a "wind bag"... ;) > >> > > Glad you put that emoticon after your comment. What we need is more > > rationality ... less > > emotional jingoism. Informix developers and DBAs, over the next 5-7 > > years are basically > > going to move in one of two directions ... Oracle or DB2. They should > > probably learn a > > bit about both before letting the number of available jobs decide the > > issue for them. ;-) > > What a choice! I think I'll go become a bank clerk or something. > > -- > Ciao, > The Obnoxious One > > "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" sending to informix-list

malcolm.iiug wrote: > We'll all support you in your ambition:-) I can't tell you how important your support is to me. :o) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> >> >> What a choice! I think I'll go become a bank clerk or something. -- Ciao, The Obnoxious One "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo"