Re: database market share 2003

Neil Truby wrote: > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message > news:c9par1$def$1@news.xmission.com... > >> >>rkusenet said: >> >> >>>Why are we guys even interested in this product any more ? >> >>For the same reason people buy Ferraris, despite the miniscule market > > share? > > But Ferraris are expensive, kept that way by a parent company which really > wants people to buy its mainstream product instead, appeal only to zealots, > are astonishingly expensive to buy regular maintenance for and ... oh, I see > your point. Now that one I saw coming. At the risk of being stoned (in various meanings): Ferrari drivers are incredibly proud and would never accept that any other car could beat a Ferrari in anything. And no - trunc space does not matter! Any car with less than 5s 0-100km/h is by definition inferior.... :-) Prost Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 SQL Compiler Development IBM Toronto Lab