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Re: IDS as a "legacy" system...

Posted in 2008

Topics: General Discussion

DA Morgan — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

InDeep wrote: > Don't you find it interesting that Oracle is making it happen without > hardware sales? They continue to kick IBMs ass without selling any > hardware. That should be something you should think about. Oracle > doesn't sell Operating Systems ( well other than their own version of > RedHat, which isn't very good right now, but over time they will make it > better. ) They appear to be more concerned about Microsoft than IBM. > Oracles' web site has customer names on it, IBMs does not, plain and simple. I said I'd leave this thread but unfortunately I am unable to resist jumping into this one last time. The only place where I suspect Oracle sees IBM as a competitor is in the application server space. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

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InDeep — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

DA Morgan wrote: > InDeep wrote: > >> Don't you find it interesting that Oracle is making it happen without >> hardware sales? They continue to kick IBMs ass without selling any >> hardware. That should be something you should think about. Oracle >> doesn't sell Operating Systems ( well other than their own version of >> RedHat, which isn't very good right now, but over time they will make it >> better. ) They appear to be more concerned about Microsoft than IBM. >> Oracles' web site has customer names on it, IBMs does not, plain and >> simple. > > I said I'd leave this thread but unfortunately I am unable to > resist jumping into this one last time. > > The only place where I suspect Oracle sees IBM as a competitor is > in the application server space. Lotus anyone? *<8o) Doesn't look like much of a threat to me.

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