Re: what is oracle rdb?

Yeah, why did they do the right thing here, but not in other places? Very good question. Oracle has bought many, many companies and products over the years...

One splendid thought I just had: Because it never became something to handle high up in the organisation, hence it never became a political issue, and therefor most of the BS has been avoided.

Nothing - nothing - beats leaving the folks alone to do the job. That's why the bearded fellows have kept working at the NEDC (New England Development Center), as I think it's called.

Mogens

Thater, William wrote:

>Mogens Nørgaard scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
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>>That's how I came to deliver the first-ever course at Lego in their HQ
>>in Denmark (in a town called Billund, but certainly not named after
>>The Bill).
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>yes i'm sure it's not named after me... oh you meant the other bill.;-)
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>>Oracle has done the right things about Rdb again and again and again
>>after taking over the shop from Digital. They kept the bearded,
>>bitter, old, twisted, spec-writing folks of the New England
>>Development team. They let them get on with what they did best: Write
>>new features for Rdb. They borrowed good ideas from them and fed it
>>into Oracle. They let them use good Oracle ideas in Rdb. I have
>>never, ever, seen any take-over work so well in the IT industry. Ask
>>the Rdb customers (Lego, Novo, etc.) and they will tell you they
>>still trust Oracle and Rdb. Incredibly well done. Respect.
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>i wonder why this one worked and the other's haven't? what made this one
>different? i can't say the Oracle has exhibited this kind of integrity in
>other places.
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>>Jesse - was this what you wished for, or did it suck?
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>well, i don't know about him, but i found it interesting.
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