Re: Standards Compliance (Was: Anyone with experience with MMOG and databases?)

On 08/15/2005 08:02:31 AM, Leandro Guimaraes Faria C. Dutra wrote:

> That said, DB2 has better compliance AFAICU, and even in
> non-conformance it's saner. And PostgreSQL, a current underdog but
> improving dramatically, has stated the intention of complying.
>
> Free software may be the dark horse saving ISO SQL. Or
> competitive pressure from MS, which has been inserting MSDE (which
> underlies also MS SQL Server too) into more and more products, like AD and
> SharePoint, and eventually MS Windows future filesystem. Perhaps IBM, if
> it can get its act together. We'll see.

I see that you're ready for renewed marketing efforts on peddling DB2 and free software. Your efforts will probably be fruitful and you will probably convince significant part of this list to switch from Oracle to something as reliable as MS SQL Server, just because you consider SQL Server more ISO standards compliant then Oracle RDBMS. The only confusing thing is that Oracle's market share keeps growing despite the lack of compliance. May be, you should stop whining about standards and learn some oracle now that you joined our list? I'll also use this opportunity to ask the admin of this list to somewhat limit the freedom granted by the first amendment, which doesn't apply neither in Brazil nor down under, and cut short this incessant drivel about compliance to ISO standards.

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Mladen Gogala
http://www.mgogala.com


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