Re: database market share 2003

bucknuggets@yahoo.com (Buck Nuggets) wrote in message news:<66a61715.0406011447.39ad3fb3@posting.google.com>... > 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. before WS 5.X you HAD to have DB2. that's where it stored its configuration info. nice catch, that catch 22. robert > > 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