Re: Good News for MS Windows users: Your favorite database is here..

nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) wrote in message news:<3b0bdd19.24937720_at_news-server>...
> Buddy, you completely misse the plot. Read the newsgroups this was
> x-posted to. Yes, right there at the top of the screen.
>
> See?
>
> This was x-posted to comp.databases.oracle.server since the VERY
> start. Where I'm active. And it was bagging ORACLE. It got the
> reply. To the above groups as well. I don't have the foggiest
> intention of participating in ANY other database forum, other than as
> a lurker every now and then. But when anyone comes to my turf and
> bags the product I know very well, they better be prepared to cop some
> flak back.
>
> Next time reaad the whole of the text? Including the headers.
>

Nuno,

        I have done as you suggested and read the whole of the text. For your information, I include a copy of your first post below and the post it was in response too. I see no# mention of Oracle ( or bagging of anyone's product, in fact it is very complimentary about Informix ) whatsoever in the post you were responding to and yet you felt compelled to ridicule the DB2 product. I am afraid that this is what sparked off the degeneration of the thread and you should hold up your hand and accept responsibility. Please do not cite subsequent threads that are in defence of your 'zillion versions'  accusations as the reason for the start of the degeneration. I eagerly await your reply.

> Informix's database offerings are not defunct. We are purchasing the assets
> because they have some of the strongest technology in the industry, and their
> approaches to technical problems (shared nothing, OS-level authentication,
> merging object-relational features into a parallel relational database) mesh
> nicely with DB2's approach. It is our expectation that Informix releases under
> development will be delivered.

Yeah, they might eventually allow IBM to deliver one version of DB2, instead of the zillion versions out there, one for each platform...

<d&r>

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 18:06:30 CDT