Re: Is Oracle SQL99 Compliant?

On 2005-01-14, Jack <none_at_mail.com> wrote:
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>> There are literally thousands of locked in, unhappy customers out there
>> paying through their nose for their DBMS, not being able to move because
>> it would cost millions of dollars in labour - and the vendor knows it.
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> And there are tens (hundreds) of thousands happy customers with proprietary
> DBMS.
> TCO is what means, DBMS expenses are pennies. And hardware cost almost

        Are we still talking about the same product here? This is an Oracle group isn't it? Pennies for for an Oracle DBMS? What are you on?

        Being locked into Oracle is a brutal thing actually.

        Although, vendors don't have to be completely stupid about writting multi-platform database applications. You can follow some best practices without subjecting the customer to excessive lock-in.

> nothing if you compare
> what they used to cost 10 years ago.
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