FW: Oracle: welcome to the basement

While Informix and Oracle kill each other. I have dusted out my MS SQL = server skills. This war vaguely reminds me of the UNIX wars that windows = NT WON. > Talk about turnabout being fair play! Even though Oracle only missed = : analysts estimates by about $.04/share in net earnings, some = commentators ,are blaming the precipitous drop in share prices on a dissapointment = that , Oracle did not rise more, considering the financial troubles that < Informix was having > Hey, Oracle, everybody thought that you'd do a lot better, considering . that Larry's been saying that Informix is at death's door. . Sure hope that ORCL doesn't have some little financial irregularities , hidden away in the closet, waiting for disclosure ;) . joe --=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival = Guide" Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", available early = 1998 from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging tips, tools, = or ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --