Re: the dread factor and working with multiple vendors

hpuxrac wrote:
> Do you want to be threatened by people who on this forum try to
> repeatedly assert that only having 1 vendor to work with is better than
> multiple vendors?
>
> You might want to read this recent post
>
> http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/the-dread-factor-multi-vendor-support-unbreakable-linux/

On a related note, MY experience is vendors of so-called 'database neutral apps' *invariably* will blame either the third party maintaining the database (us, usually) or Oracle. They will never admit their shrinkware won't run efficiently on Oracle *ever*, as it has been developed for sqlserver. Some vendors are so cautious of some third party maintaining a database with their front-end they actually disallow that third party to do anything.

So, yes, having to deal with less parties is usually a *good thing*, as most parties never acknowledge *they* are responsible for the problems customers are facing!!!

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA