Re: INFORMIX TO ORACLE PLEASE HELP ME

On 30 Sep 98, at 2:31, Gore18 wrote: > Sorry ... but I don't understand how anyone can choose marketing leadership > over technical dominance. Simple. Most people (especially financial/CEO types, sometimes even IT managers or directors) don't do technical stuff. They see zillions of Oracle ads, all saying "Oracle is the best", they don't see anything else and they put two and two together. It might not be right, but it surely is reasonable. I mean, have you been to CNN.com lately? CNN/Oracle? Wow - if it's good enough for CNN, it must be good enough for me. And so on and so on... Have you ever had this conersation? Them: "So, what do you do for a living?" You: "I'm an Informix developer" Them: "What's Informix?" You: "You know Oracle?" Them: "Yes" You: "Informix is like that, only better" Technical dominance is pointless without a decent marketing solution. I mean how come NT is doing so well? It's surely not on the strength of the underlying solution. > "Informix leads the object-relational pack by about four years." > > - former Oracle CTO I'm sure I've seen this elsewhere today... Are you a new employee in the UDO department? :-) -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________