Re: CA spins off Ingres to a new company

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:52:13AM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> From the infoworld article: "Among open-source products, MySQL is the
> most prominent, with PostgreSQL nipping at its heels."
>
> Nipping? Nipping!! We're an elephant dammit, we don't nip. And they're a
> dolphin, so they don't have heels.
>
> Now an elephant would trample underfoot... Except they'd be in the
> water, so that wouldn't work.
>
> We could hide their fish! But then they'd probably steal our supply of
> peanuts. Hmm - this business writing is harder than it looks isn't it.

Here's what we do:
http://www.commandprompt.com/images/mammoth_versus_dolphin_500.jpg

> Anyway, we've nothing to fear from Ingres IMHO. Unless of course they
> get a mouse mascot...
>
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> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
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