Wasn't the second one making more or less descent mices?
On 10/3/06, Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/03/2006 06:37:18 PM, Kevin Closson wrote:
> >
> > So who on list here would find it a good thing if Larry puts out
> > an Oracle distro? Would that mean yet another Linux distro to
> > support, or would that replace the only distro you use more or less?
> >
> >
>
> Personally, I'd advise my boss to completely ignore it. I know of two
> other vendors
> who manufacture both OS and a database and I don't like either of them.
> One was known
> as an "Infernal Bloody Monopoly" and although it has somewhat changed its
> ways, it's still
> difficult to deal with, expensive and slow to support the 3rd party
> hardware. Databases
> produced by that vendor are not very popular among the general public. The
> other vendor is on
> the west coast, in the town of Redmond where the shadows lie. The day they
> produce something
> that doesn't suck will be the day they start producing vacuum cleaners.
> Nuff said. I don't
> think that Oracle should join these two vendors. I will not mention these
> two vendors by
> name, to protect their privacy.
>
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Best regards,
Alex Gorbachev
The Pythian Group
Sr. Oracle DBA
http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex/
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