RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:53:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004DA08C.20020926075331@fatcity.com>

OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail

you obviously have not wasted enough time with tasks like this. they really suck.

you end up spinning your wheels for a week, all for nothing. your report ends up on somebody's shelf someplace - never read. and 6 months later, they ask the same questions.

the biggest task that a body needs to learn is how to duck these research projects.

unless you *really* like doing them.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----
From: Inka Bezdziecka [mailto:IBezdziecka@cupe.ca]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

Well,

regardless of MS tactics, the last paragraph reads: "Therefore, I support investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net, but I emphasize the word INVESTIGATING. "

What is better than R&D projects? At the end one wins no matter what. Knowing more does not hurt, does it?

inka

-----Original Message-----
From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:NDATFM@labor.state.ny.us]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:23 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

Exactly.

In other words, thank the MS-sales-dweeb for his time, and tell him "bye-bye now", "no-more-sales-for-you".

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----
From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:adar76@inter.net.il]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:43 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: MIcrosoft Blackmail

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

----- Original Message -----

From: Thomas Jeff

To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:13 AM

Subject: OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail

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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