Re: Isolation levels in Informix vs Oracle

DA Morgan said: >>>that as other jobs utilize resources it refines its estimate taking them >>>into account. >> >> Yeah, that would never happen in the way I coded my progress monitoring. >> Gee, let me switch to Oracle right away, it does things that I have a >> library for. > > Yeah. Why would anyone want, built-in and included in a product, > something they could charge their employer thousands of dollars to > reinvent. I keep forgetting I bill by the hour. In what way does something in a library require reinvention? And please don't try and tell me Oracle aren't charging for their built-in functionality. If I had their sales, I could charge the same pennies per copy that they do. But they definitely charge for it. I just charge more for my library than they do, but they more than make it up in maintenance costs and license revenue for all the other neat stuff Oracle does. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed sending to informix-list

Obnoxio The Chav wrote: > DA Morgan said: > > >>>>that as other jobs utilize resources it refines its estimate taking them >>>>into account. >>> >>>Yeah, that would never happen in the way I coded my progress monitoring. >>>Gee, let me switch to Oracle right away, it does things that I have a >>>library for. >> >>Yeah. Why would anyone want, built-in and included in a product, >>something they could charge their employer thousands of dollars to >>reinvent. I keep forgetting I bill by the hour. > > > In what way does something in a library require reinvention? And please > don't try and tell me Oracle aren't charging for their built-in > functionality. If I had their sales, I could charge the same pennies per > copy that they do. But they definitely charge for it. I just charge more > for my library than they do, but they more than make it up in maintenance > costs and license revenue for all the other neat stuff Oracle does. Last time I looked neither Oracle nor Informix was shareware so you got me there: They all cost money. But we both know that wasn't the point I was making. The point was how much money was going to be spent, above and beyond the product cost to make up for what was missing. This is not some stupid us vs them flamewar starter: Not an attack on Informix at all. Just an attack on the use of the phrase "red herring" when none was present. Lets call it a day as there is no point in pursuing this into something it was not intended to be. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)