Re: selecting a column according to a minimum

From: Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:18:49 GMT
Message-ID: <4175AEF3.7030207@comcast.net>

Mikito Harakiri wrote:
> Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<2tkf50F20philU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...

>>IBM policy does not allow me - a DB2 engine developer - to install a 
>>competitive product. The reasons for that are obvious: It would invite 
>>lawsuits. Just read the Oracle licencing agreement if you doubt that.

>

>
> How explicit disclaimer is? "If you are citizen of Libya, Iran, North
> Korea, worked in the past, or even think applying to a job for a
> competitor, you can't download this product!"

I don't think there's anything in the Oracle Trial License agreement that would stop Serge from downloading and trying Oracle Database 10g. After all, IBM are a huge Oracle partner, and they have Oracle software up the gnu.

As long as he

1) doesn't rebadge it
2) provide it to someone else
3) reverse engineer it
4) publish performance comparisons without Oracle's consent

then he is a free as anybody else to trial the software

So I think it's more IBM's own internal policies that stops him from doing so Received on Tue Oct 19 2004 - 19:18:49 CDT