Re: Informix beats Oracle

"pokeyman" <pokeyman76@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1182183895.260507.129260@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Bottomline... benchmarks are very expensive to do. Do you want IBM to > pour $$ into benchmarks, or pour $$ into making IDS even better? Well, to deconstruct the question a bit, what you're asking for is for us to make a choice between marketing and promotion, and technical excellence. And whilst you've asked the question in a rhetorical style, assuming that the answer is obviously the latter, there's a balance to be struck somewhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door". And, of course, he wasn't an enterpreneur, and this is bollocks. There is no point in having the best product in the world if no-one knows about it.