RE: RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

I'm guessing they woulda bought Sybase products and Oracle stock... :0)

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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Humm, IMHO Larry was right.

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Author: "Miller; Jay" <JayMiller_at_TDWaterhouse.com>
Date:       9/26/2001 9:00 AM

No guarantees as to accuracy, but I heard this story about 7 years ago from
someone who said he was there.

Apparently when the major Wall St. firms were deciding whether to go with
Oracle or Sybase they arranged to have both companies come in and do presentations and say what special arrangements they'd be willing to offer.

Sybase sent high level management who came with a list of features, explained their policies and offered a substantial discount.

Oracle sent Larry Ellison who told them Oracle didn't have to offer discounts because it was obviously superior and anyone who bought Sybase was
an idiot.

They bought Sybase.

Jay Miller

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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

• Guy Hammond <guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>

> That's about all I can be bothered to type for now. In summary, I
would
> like to say that Sybase is a fine product for your grandmother to
store
> her recipes in :0)

Interesting to note that a good number of financial companies -- who make a living off of fast, stable databases -- use Sybase. They tend to prefer it for its combination of speed and cost of operation. None of them store recipies on it that I know of, nor do they allow their grandmothers access to the systems.

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