Re: Oracle ?

Obnoxio The Chav wrote: >>Innovation is like the tide. Making it rise raises the IBM ship and with >>it it raises Oracle, Microsoft etc, ... . IBM takes as little offense >>with this as a shark minds cleaner-fish picking its teeth. > > > So what you're saying is that IBM is the only company that gets the big > picture? And everyone else is further down the food chain, surviving on > the strength of IBM? I thought that was Xerox's role in the industry. Innovation without profit margin. The day anyone of import believe Serge's nonsense is the day the Shareholders of IBM toss out the Board of Directors and the new Board tosses out the entire executive management team for not doing carrying out their fiduciary responsibility. >>When Larry was proud of cashing in on IBM's "eBusiness" strategie IBM by >>no means lost. >>The same is true for the grid, onDemand, CM, II, pushing Linux. >>IBM approach to business is terra forming not subdivision development. >>As long as on the broad scale IBM captures enough of the latter they >>don't mind the spillage. > > Your humility is touching. I'm sort of starting to see why dealing with > IBM is so much fun for us poor pondscum round the edges of the tide that > IBM is so generously lifting for us. And don't forget that Thomas Watson personally signed off on the development of both the pond and the scum. >>I'm sure there are companies that like Oracle's approach to rip and >>replace (closed). But there are also ton's who firmly believe (or are >>condemned) in the heterogeneous world (open). > > WTF does that have to do with IBM's "exceptional" marketing techniques? Its the old soft-sell. You know like DOS to Microsoft. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond) -----------== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----= Over 100,000 Newsgroups - Unlimited Fast Downloads - 19 Servers =-----