Re: Oracle: welcome to the basement

Posted in 1997

Tim Schaefer — Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:23:22 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Joe Lumbley wrote: > > Oracle's stock dropped almost 30% in the first hour of trading today after > they announced disappointing earnings. By 10:30 EST they had been downgraded > to neutral by 3 brokerages and their trading volume was almost 10 times > their average. > > Maybe Informix should start making upgrade offers to Oracle customers > who are worried about the continued viability of Oracle ;) > > Joe > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey Joe, maybe Oracle will get bought out by a hamburger chain that uses a clown for advertising. Consistency! :-) -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 -------------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o---------------------- http://www.inxutil.com http://www.informix.com http://www.iiug.org news://comp.databases.informix mailto:majordomo@iiug.org no subject body: subscribe linux-informix ======================================================================