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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fábio Ottolini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Fowler, J.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Antwort: mySQL is winning
> One thing that I have learned on the corporate market is that huge
companies
> prefer to pay huge amounts of money than to bet on a product that is new
and
> almost for free. Quality in this case is secondary and what happens behind
> the scenes is what is taken into consideration. An IT Director doesn't
feel
> comfortable to say to a huge enterprise that they are going to migrate to
an
> open source database. Again, quality is not the problem. If something goes
> wrong people will always say: "If I have stayed with Oracle this would
never
> happend!" That's bullshit. We all know that but have to face the facts and
> learn to live with them, learn to dodge'em.
> Of course Oracle is worried about MySQL. They have enough reasons for
that.
> At the moment I'm trying to use MySQL inside a HUGE (really HUGE) company
> and the answers that I receive from the IT Department is something like:
> "We'll be not responsible if anything goes wrong." NOBODY wants to put
their
> faces at the combat front but still I'm trying... Future will show the
truth
> and people who believe in open source and MySQL have to be prepared for
this
> kind of situations. I don't expect my company to forget about their
> agreement with other companies just because the open source comunity says
> MySQL is good. News like NASA using MySQL and some small movements here
and
> there are going to put MySQL against the wall. If I can put MySQL to work
> inside this company and people start to hear about it they are going to
> consider it in the future for big things.
> If MySQL is good, and I truly believe that it is, we are going to hear the
> trumpets of victory very soon. So, if you are a MySQL addicted like I am,
> don't worry. It takes time to prove that something is good but once it's
> done it's just a matter of maintaining the name and the quality of the
> astonishing product that MySQL is today.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Fábio Ottolini
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Fowler, J.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Antwort: mySQL is winning
>
>
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:21:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On 01.02.2001 14:54:11 Fowler, J.T. wrote:
> > >
> > > > Migration Kit for MySQL to Oracle on Linux Now Available.
> > > >
> > > > Moving just got easier with the new MySQL-to-Oracle Migration
> Workbench-the
> > > > ideal migration software for developers who want to migrate
> open-source
> > > > database on Linux to Oracle on Red Hat Linux 6.2.
> > >
> > > Hmm?? In how far is MySQL winning? Isn't that a sign that it's
losing?
> I
> > > mean, if this were a Oracle-To-MySQL kit, I would understand you....
> >
> >
> > The announcement is an explicit indicator that Oracle has taken notice
of
> > the MySQL world, and felt a need to respond.
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