Re: PRESS:INFORMIX UNVEILS PRODUCT STRATEGY FOR UNIVERSAL SERVER

you are a fool if you underestimate the complete and usefull products oracle provides, especially as compared to the other wannabe vendors. sybase once had a two year shot at overcomming oracle on performance, but that was years ago. today, oracle simply has the tools, the others are a faint shadow. let them develop something, and we will take a look. else, quit lamenting reality. -- In article <4hu4ki$ifo@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, aaron.g@ix.netcom.com (Aaron D. Gross) wrote: > jregep@zenacomp.zenacomp.com (John Regep) wrote: > > >Aaron D. Gross (aaron.g@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > >: mew@world.std.com (Michael E Willett) wrote: > > >: >How might this match up with the new Oracle Universal Server, > >: >also announced in February? > > >: My understanding is that the Oracle announcement is simply > >: spin-control to keep from losing customers. > > >Its amazing to me that Customers keep flocking to oracle. So much of > >thier product line is just hearsay. oracle knows that most > >people are satisified 'knowing' that oracle has this-or-that but never > >intend to (or get around to) using it. > > >Warm fuzzies sell I guess > > Or Bill Gates and Larry Ellison were separated at birth? > > ;-}