Re: database market share 2003

Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1085961757.451220@yasure>... > You can't call the fact that I, personally, have never run into > DB2 on Windows nonsense. No, but I can call that fact totally irrelevant. I have never run into a production oracle database on windows either. But then again - I'm seldom involved in windows projects. So this experience of mine is also totally irrelevant. You're an oracle consultant, right? Let me guess...you don't get called into a lot of db2 projects, right? Hmmm, there could be a conection here... BTW, lately I have been running into db2/windows implementations - often in conjunction with websphere and its add-on applications. And please - spare us the appeal to authority argument of your fortune 1000 companies. Many of us have consulted at dozens of forture 1000s - and know how rare it is to ever see more than 1-2% of their IT infrastructure. The fact that you may have spent two weeks configuring an oracle server in the marketing department of company X says and were not informed of their other vendor products is so meaningless that it only further erodes your weak credibility on the db2 market share. I appreciate when you set the record straight on unfair oracle criticisms. When you're the one engaging in FUD, you fall into the same value category as body enhancement spam... buck