Re: database market share 2003

Daniel Morgan said: > The reason Oracle doesn't concentrate on OS/390, if that is the case, > might also relate to the difficulty of selling into a marketshare very > carefully managed by IBM. Jesus, Daniel, why don't you blame IBM for the ebola virus as well, while you're at it? I'd like to point out that companies like Compuware, BMC and Computer Associates do exceptionally well in the "carefully managed" IBM mainframe market. Could it possibly be that either Oracle doesn't grok the mainframe market or sees it as different to core business and so doesn't work as hard on it? Or maybe something else? Does it *have* to be nasty IBM's fault that Oracle doesn't have big marketshare in the mainframe database as well? Is it not remotely possible that Oracle cannot or will not commit to the market? Have you considered that it could be entirely or largely Oracle's own responsibility to try and compete in a given market. Sure, IBM does stuff we don't agree with. So does every other company that walks the earth. Get over it. -- 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 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html sending to informix-list