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Yechiel - But all things are NEVER equal. So companies end up doing stupid
things because of some larger motive. You end up buying crappy computers
because your boss thinks it will impress the CEO with how you are loyally
supporting someone that somehow supports your company.
Ironic isn't it. When the PC industry began, the computer industry was firmly dominated by IBM. PC enthusiasts were a bunch of starry-eyed dreamers that though they could wrestle computing away from the computer priesthood and bring freedom to everyman. In many ways the Internet has made that dream come true. But then we have Microsoft talking about creating a new security system for my computer that on one hand will protect me from bad things and on the other hand will protect the products of large corporations from me. In a great number of ways Microsoft resembles the IBM of the past.
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Of course Larry Ellison only wishes he had these type of issues to
deal with.
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Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com <mailto:dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:43 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
What exactly is your problem?
Lets say that you are a factory that sells paper.
You need to buy a computer system.
One supplier also sell printers and the other advocate paperless office.
All things being equal, which one will you give your business to??
Yechiel Adar
Mehish
This came to our DBA team today. I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm not
a business
guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off. Is it
common practice
by MS?
It is important from an Architecture point of view that we understand all the various approaches to "web services" (also known as "grid computing" -- see my recent report). Microsoft's dot Net initiative is their approach to this grand overarching software strategy.
There is a second reason why we might be interested specifically in dot Net. Subsidiary XYZ earns $xyz a year for us from
Microsoft by [performing certain services], etc. Microsoft has told our management that one of their criteria for evaluating their vendors will be how good of a MS customer is the potential vendor. Specifically, has the vendor bought in to the dot Net strategy. Now we aren't going to make our global enterprise solutions strategy decisions based upon that point alone, but it's not something we are going to ignore either.
Therefore, I support investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net, but I emphasize the word INVESTIGATING.
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