Re: FW: FREE ORACLE SOFTWARE!

Mark Denham writes: >Hey, I object to this!! These guys would *NEVER* make that sort of >comparison. Informix on DOS would be just *TOO* fast to compare >against Oracle on a mainframe. They would more likely choose a >scenario involving 1000 Leprechauns (in a box) passing paper messages >between each other, and Oracle on a mainframe! > >Be a close run thing though. Sorry, Mark, they *did* do that, and they did it in spades, splattered across the advertising pages of PC Week and every other computer mag with a decent readership. They compared OnLine/DOS (Novell) against Oracle/Unix. Informix objected, of course, and was utterly ignored (no surprise here). You'd think they'd realize there is more than enough room for multiple RDBMS vendors in this market and quit taking cheap shots at their competitors. Frankly, their marketing attitude alone is sufficient to keep me away. Bill Williams E-Mail: bwilliam@jaxnet.com Flames: nobody@nowhere.com -or- redirect to /dev/null +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Disclaimer: My views, opinions, and judgments are my own. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Free scientific inquiry" is a redundancy. | | "Free governmental inquiry" is self-contradictory. | | | | Be sure to read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It's the world's | | greatest novel, rated #2 of those books readers said had the | | most impact on their lives (NY Times readership poll)! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+