Re: database market share 2003

TruthbeKnown wrote:

> Talk about changing the subject to avoid the issue. Weren't we talking
> about the major ERP ISVs and whether or not they were "built" for IBM
> mainframes and whether or not they were moving away from Oracle for
> their own internal use?

Hmm - I was responding to the following from Blair

> Well, SAP R3, and applications from Peoplesoft, Siebel and JD Edwards, many of
> which were written for Oracle and later ported to DB2, Sybase, Informix IDS and
> SQL Server in the 1990's, have had extensive investment from their owners to be
> "anything but Oracle" as their internal RDBMS development platform.

It's entirely possible however that Blair and I are both off-topic, and I suspect at least one of us is permanently. Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 20:16:48 CDT