RE: Oracle vs DB2

Greetings Friends in California!

If you felt the earth shake, don't worry. It's not an earth quake, it just Larry Ellison's reaction to the IBM-Informix deal. The man needs to spend a lot less time picking fights with Bill and a lot more time paying attention to his market, and from being end-runned. MS has money, but IBM prints the stuff.

Cheers!

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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:50 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

trying again...

> From: "Eric D. Pierce" <PierceED_at_csus.edu>
> To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:56:08 -0700
> Subject: RE: Oracle vs DB2

>
> Reportedly what IBM did here some years ago, was sell a
> mainframe hardware package (for a COBOL/VSAM package) within
> the University system's budget constraints.
>
> Turned out that to actually run the application, several
> millions of $ of additional "goodies" were needed.
>
> But, they got the original bid.
>
> Dealing with IBM mainframe sales critters (apparently recruited
> directly from some boot camp for counter terrorism?) was not
> exactly the same as dealing with DEC sales critters.
>
>
>
> On 24 Apr 2001, at 13:00, Ed.Haskins_at_VerizonWireless.com wrote:
>
> > It's that "ancillary business" you better watch out for!! IBM is using
DB2
> > as their "Loss-Leader".
>
>

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