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

> And incorrect, ignorant and misleading in their statements about the
> "competition".

To quote you, Nuno, "sounds like a perfect description of Oracle" ... how *DOES* that shoe fit, now that it's on the other foot?

> >UDB is taking market share from ORACLE because it is better and cheaper.
>
> Correction: it's cheaper. IBM is buying off market share. They can
> afford it, why not? Just don't call it something it isn't.

Nuno, go to the bank, take out a loan, buy a freaking clue. No company stays in business with R&D costs as high as IBM's when they sell the product "at a loss". The fact of the matter is that IBM have a product that is at the same time, mature, stable, inovative, fresh, AND CHEAPER. IBM are making a bet, not "buying off market share". From personal experience, bets can be won or lost. The bet is that people in the industry prefer a product that is what it says it is, and not more hype than substance. IBM has many many faults. The thing is, they know it, they find the faults, and they correct them. Kudos to them for not engaging in the obfuscation and lies that Oracle does. They are above it. As am I!

Your next comment sheds billions of candles on your ability to engage in lively debate with clarity and poise. I charaterized the nature of this exchange, you took it as a personal slight. Are you that insecure?

I will not respond to you anymore, since I have much more profitable things to do, but .....I hate to do this, but it's too fun not to:

YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK!!! G'BYE! giggle

>
> >marketplace is where one wins, NOT in a silly rant about "my penis is bigger than
> >yours, you idiot" - which is precisely what this has degenerated into.
>
> Ooohhh, and I'm name-calling?
Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 18:05:34 CDT