Re: Rising to the bait

Malcolm Weallans (onlinedbc@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote: : There has been a lot of talk on this newsgroup about the presence of : Oracle personnel making misleading claims about their software, licences, : and revenues. Might I suggest that somebody should write an editor which : would detect the name Oracle in the sender name, paint this in large : letters so that everybody can see the source of the message, and : therefore discard it. Perhaps if we didn't all rise to the Oracle bait : then they would give up and go home like the children they appear to be. If you read the forum via a newsreader use a kill entry. Irrespective of the product/vendor, the marketshare type of thread always seems to result in the same old chestnuts. Perhaps the people looking for such data points should attempt to contact such sources as IDC, Gartner, Aberdeen et al to get their detailed assessments of the vendor, market, revenue contributions etc. -- Nigel Campbell Voice: (613) 738-1338 ext 3016 P.O. Box 9707,Stn.T Business Intelligence FAX: (613) 738-0002 3755 Riverside Dr. Cognos Incorporated Email: nigelc@cognos.com Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 http://www.cognos.com CANADA My comments are my personal opinion and are not the opinion of my employer or anyone else. I claim copyright in all my statements and give noone the right to copy them (even if they are quoted elsewhere) in any medium except on netnews or email. In particular, noone can reproduce or reprint my comments in print or any visual medium without getting my explicit permission.