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??!@??

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