> Thomas - get a load of this...I argued with these guys for 2
> years.  And now when PostgreSQL makes it irrelevant, they port.

Well, it will be interesting to see how they do. They can't beat us on
price, and don't have a particularly open interface, but it might be fun
to try to interoperate with them...

>   "In the last couple of weeks, there's been this huge groundswell for
> Linux," the representative said.

Two weeks??!@??

>   A version of Oracle8 for Linux on the Intel platform is planned for
> shipment by March 1999. Support for other hardware platforms is likely
> to follow.

If they hold true to form, they will announce now and take three years
to actually port the full features from their current product. Oracle,
at least as of 4 years ago, was the _worst_ company I've seen for
vaporware and misleading product information. They did a demo at work
(JPL) for their new product set running on three separate platforms.
Pretty neat, eh? Except that it turned out that _none_ of the products
running on any one of the platforms was available on the other platforms
in the demo. Forms on a Windows machine, db on a Sun, something else on
a Mac, and no current product available for all three. Pretty slimy
salesmanship :(

                  - Tom

Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:33:47 +0000
"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: Linux Oracle! (fwd)
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:33:47PM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Well, it will be interesting to see how they do. They can't beat us on
> price, and don't have a particularly open interface, but it might be fun
> to try to interoperate with them...

So we have to get an ODBC like database connection going. I love it. IMO we
should already start thinking about a solution for this.

Michael
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Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:55:27 +0200
"Dr. Michael Meskes" <meskes@online-club.de>
Re: [HACKERS] Re: Linux Oracle! (fwd)