Re: IBM : ***Please stop this *****

Hello IBM fellows

you are entitled to your opinion. But trying to convince oracle guys of virtues of DB2 and trying to counter what **you believe*** is false propaganda is futile. It will only provoke people. I wrote this because i saw a thread of ****105 **** articles sometime back

Larry Edelstein <lsedels_at_us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<3B5B6791.5C11D649_at_us.ibm.com>...
> Jock,
>
> You are entitled to your opinion, but Serge is right about this.
>
> You claim "Even if some oracle person makes a **supposedly*** wrong remark
> against DB2, its better if IBM kept quiet. After all these are personal
> opinions and will not affect DB2 in anyway."
>
> The problem is ... when false or misleading information is published in
> any public forum, the risk is that if it goes unchallenged, people may
> actually believe it. Unforunately, the quality and integrity of the
> product is not as important as the quality and integrity of what people
> believe about it and of the marketing surrounding it. Many companies and
> products have proven that over and over again.
>
> Larry
>
> jock wrote:
>
> > I am trying to be a bit civil about this.
> >
> > Somebody makes some remark against DB2 in an oracle forum
> > and these IBM Guys promptly jump into the ring and a flame war starts.
> >
> > Now, i like IBM and i also like Oracle. I use these newsgroups to
> > learn about oracle and not to see endless threads on which database is
> > better.
> >
> > I ***cannot*** understand why these DB2 chaps come up defending IBM.
> > Even if some oracle person makes a **supposedly*** wrong remark
> > against DB2,
> > its better if IBM kept quiet. After all these are personal opinions
> > and will not affect DB2 in anyway.
> >
> > PLEASE STOP THIS.. IBM !!!!!!!!!!!.
Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 23:26:57 CDT