Re: database market share 2003

bucknuggets_at_yahoo.com (Buck Nuggets) wrote in message news:<66a61715.0406011447.39ad3fb3_at_posting.google.com>...
> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1085961757.451220_at_yasure>...
>
> > You can't call the fact that I, personally, have never run into
> > DB2 on Windows nonsense.
>
> No, but I can call that fact totally irrelevant. I have never run
> into a production oracle database on windows either. But then again -
> I'm seldom involved in windows projects. So this experience of mine
> is also totally irrelevant.
>
> You're an oracle consultant, right? Let me guess...you don't get
> called into a lot of db2 projects, right? Hmmm, there could be a
> conection here...
>
> BTW, lately I have been running into db2/windows implementations -
> often in conjunction with websphere and its add-on applications.

before WS 5.X you HAD to have DB2. that's where it stored its configuration info. nice catch, that catch 22.

robert

>
> And please - spare us the appeal to authority argument of your fortune
> 1000 companies. Many of us have consulted at dozens of forture 1000s
> - and know how rare it is to ever see more than 1-2% of their IT
> infrastructure. The fact that you may have spent two weeks
> configuring an oracle server in the marketing department of company X
> says and were not informed of their other vendor products is so
> meaningless that it only further erodes your weak credibility on the
> db2 market share.
>
> I appreciate when you set the record straight on unfair oracle
> criticisms. When you're the one engaging in FUD, you fall into the
> same value category as body enhancement spam...
>
> buck
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 15:18:26 CDT