Re: The end is near: Coca Cola switches to UDB
From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:41:07 +1000
Message-ID: <hapvcq$kuo$2_at_news.eternal-september.org>
John Hurley wrote,on my timestamp of 10/10/2009 5:29 AM:
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:41:07 +1000
Message-ID: <hapvcq$kuo$2_at_news.eternal-september.org>
John Hurley wrote,on my timestamp of 10/10/2009 5:29 AM:
> I was in the IBM mainframe world for a long time ... by the time I
> transitioned over to Oracle Sun and HP were what everyone was pretty
> much running oracle workloads on. Just a few people hanging in on DEC
> systems in this area.
>
> I don't think DEC was ever a major player in the computer field the
> way that you appear to think they were.
>
Dude: you need to brush up on your computer history... The IBM mainframe world was and is as removed from reality as can be and DEC was *only* the second largest computer manufacturer. Received on Sat Oct 10 2009 - 08:41:07 CDT