Re: Days(360)

From: matur_suksema@my-deja.com >In article <8k2gkr$h67$1@news.xmission.com>, > Dick Snoke <dsnoke@informix.com> wrote: > > > > At 09:19 AM 07/06/2000, mr_tricky wrote: > > >Only Micro$oft could come up with the concept of a 360 day year. > > >I guess it's the new Windoze Year TM and will become standard > > >across all software :-) > > > > This is not so new. The calendar of 360 days is used extensively in >the > > financial industry so that each month has exactly the same number of >days. > > This has to do with the way interest and bond payments and the like >are > > calculated. Its one of the things that Dr. Stonebraker used to show >why > > extensibility matters. The ANSI SQL date-time arithmetic doesn't work >for > > the financial community. So the real question is how many other >calendars > > will MS choose to include in their product. In IDS.2000, I can define >as > > many different calendars as required: Jewish, Chinese, etc.. > > > > MS has finally realized that SQL Server can't compete in some markets > > because certain require functions are missing. > > > > Just my $.02, > >Hey Dick, why don't you give that $.02 to the Informix stock price or >better yet their marketing campaign, they both could use it about now. >You mentioned MS SQL Server not competing in some markets, lately I have >been trying to figure out in what markets Informix is trying to compete. Let me guess, another happy stockholder? :0) My guess is they're trying to capture the Cranial-Rectal Inversion market. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com