"Bad sales Dweeb. No more doughnuts for you!"
"Mad about money my name might suggest, But good taste about nothing describes me the best." "Mercadante, Thomas F" To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <NDATFM cc: @labor.state. Subject: RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail ny.us> Sent by: root 09/26/2002 10:23 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L Exactly. In other words, thank the MS-sales-dweeb for his time, and tell him "bye-bye now", "no-more-sales-for-you". Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 9:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What exactly is your problem? Lets say that you are a factory that sells paper. You need to buy a computer system. One supplier also sell printers and the other advocate paperless office. All things being equal, which one will you give your business to?? Yechiel Adar Mehish ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:13 AM This came to our DBA team today. I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm not a business guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off. Is it common practice by MS? It is important from an Architecture point of view that we understand all the various approaches to "web services" (also known as "grid computing" -- see my recent report). Microsoft's dot Net initiative is their approach to this grand overarching software strategy. There is a second reason why we might be interested specifically in dot Net. Subsidiary XYZ earns $xyz a year for us from Microsoft by [performing certain services], etc. Microsoft has told our management that one of their criteria for evaluating their vendors will be how good of a MS customer is the potential vendor. Specifically, has the vendor bought in to the dot Net strategy. Now we aren't going to make our global enterprise solutions strategy decisions based upon that point alone, but it's not something we are going to ignore either. Therefore, I support investigating SQL server, Biz Talk, and dot Net, but I emphasize the word INVESTIGATING. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Thomas Day INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).