RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:58:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004D9C5F.20020926045819@fatcity.com>

OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail

Thomas,

Don't get mad - remember, it's not personal, it's just "the bidness".

Remember, sales-dweebs can say anything they want. If your sales-dweeb-conversation person rolls-over for this MS sales-dweeb, then it's your companies fault.

And remember, it's a two-way street. The sales-dweeb can say anything he wants to you, but you can call also - including telling him to stick the .NET where the sun don't shine.

It's like what Dr. Phil says - you can't be taken advatage of unless you let it happen. The sales-dweebs push, and you are supposed to push back if it is not in your companies best interest.

Hope this helps.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Jeff [mailto:ThomasJe@tce.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:13 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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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Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 07:58:19 CDT