Re: Linux Oracle! (fwd)

> 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??!(at)??

> 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