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Dennis,
Actually migrating to StarOffice is pretty simple. We would have done so a year ago, but the mail package we're using would not budge. Damn Lotus.
Dick Goulet
____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM> Date: 9/26/2002 12:37 PM
Yeah, I saw that one and thought "how hard can that be?". Just raise license fees again. What are corporations going to do? Switch to StarOffice? Do that and all the users will insist that they much have pure MS.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:57 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Speaking of R&D, what about the eWeek article about how M$ is going to pump $3,000,000,000.00 into MS Office? They want to achieve $20,000,000,000.00 per year in revenue on MSOffice alone. Seems like they want to dominate the desktop with more that just the O/S and browser. Can't anyone slay this beast?
It's an evil world in which we live...
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I view a R&D project not as "adding value to the business", but training for myself. Everytime I have participated on an R&D project I have learned a significant amount and have gained invaluable experience!
If you go in expecting to throw away all of your "work", you will be frustrated. If you go in expecting to learn about a technology or product in a "real world" setting, then you'll come away enriched by the experience!
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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-----
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:04 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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-----
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:23 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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-----
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:43 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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