[Fwd: Re: SQL Server Yukon]

So, not only did Informix have no marketing... From comp.databases.oracle.server -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > So, not only did Informix have no marketing... > > From comp.databases.oracle.server > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: SQL Server Yukon > From: > wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au (Noons) > Date: > 27 Oct 2003 20:08:05 -0800 > > >Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1067277048.821099@yasure>... > > >>Is Oracle one of the most incompetent marketing organizations on the >>planet for its size? >>Absolutely. When a room full of industry professionals (my students) can >>name a dozen or >>more Microsoft products and still think Oracle is a one product company >>Oracle's marketing >>staff should be reduce to half-pay until they earn the rest of their >>salary. >> >> > >How true. I've maintained this for years. Back in the days >when Ingres was alive and claimed at every drop of a hat that >Oracle could sell only because it had "good marketing", I simply >had to laugh! Oracle NEVER had good marketing. Ever! > >That is if we consider "marketing" in the conventional sense >as the science of creating long term demand for a range of products. > >Of course, others call "marketing" to what used to be called PR >and advertising. In those areas, sure, Oracle might do >better than many. > >But not in real marketing: they don't have the foggiest. > > > >>candy on the CD. But >>to make people aware of the fact that the candy exists and how to use >>it. Something they >>have failed at time and time again. >> >> > >Exactly. And making it cheaper for the same candy ain't gonna >solve the problem. > >Cheers >Nuno Souto >wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au.nospam > > But better than Informix's so I wouldn't crow too loudly. ;-) -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)