Re: Hooray. Now: can we move on?

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:45:31 +1100
Message-ID: <41be0d7e$0$1078$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

joel-garry_at_home.com wrote:
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>

>>hpuxrac wrote:
>>
>>>Howard J. Rogers wrote:
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>>>
>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4092059.stm
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>>>
>>>Not bad news for oracle professionals.
>>>Peoplesoft customers?  I guess time will tell.
>>>
>>
>>
>>I suppose I will be truly happy only when they kill off Peoplesoft
>>products altogether (58 indexes per table, anyone??!).
>>
>>I just hope all those promises to keep Peoplesoft in development were

>
>

>>just so much hot air.

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>
> What Larry said last week at Openworld was that they intend to finish
> development on the current Peoplesoft development, and then have an
> upgrade path for both Peoplesoft customers and Oracle Apps customers to
> whatever the next big thing is. He used some big funny word like
> "oversupport" to describe how O will handle current P customers.

Yeah, I read that too. That's why I am still hopeful of what I hoped!

> He also mentioned how great it is to have support centers all over the
> world. Hmmmmm...
>
> One of the best parts of Openworld was Scott McNeally using a Magic-8
> ball as a "management staff advisory tool" to answer questions like
> what will happen to Peoplesoft.

Can you explain for anyone not there (ie, me at least) what a Magic-8 ball is, and why it was a good bit to see?

Regards
HJR Received on Mon Dec 13 2004 - 15:45:31 CST