Oh, this is just too much.
Oracle contracting out to a SQL Server shop to save $$.
Hell just froze over.
Jared
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>From the Robert X. Cringely column in InfoWorld:
Oracle slammed and exposed
Although Microsoft catches a lot of heat for using rival software
within its own walls, it was discovered recently Oracle
uses Microsoft's SQL Server database, among other things.
That's right, and chief Larry Ellison was forced to suck it
up and admit this, albeit internally, when Oracle was
struck by the SQL Slammer virus. In a memo that I obtained
on the down-low, Ellison wrote that Slammer slowed Oracle's
global network. "It seems we have a few copies of the
Microsoft SQL Server database on our network," Larry wrote.
"We need the SQL Server machines to test the Oracle
database and make certain it interoperates properly with
the Microsoft database. However, we do not need to attach
the Microsoft machines to our network and will not do so in
the future."
That is not all, though. A spy of mine was using the Oracle
Development Tools User Group management facility to change
his member-name password. All of a sudden he got an error
regarding the Microsoft Jet database engine and some
related difficulty. Shocked, he wired the user group
administrative listserver and was told that the work is
contracted out because retaining an Oracle-based shop for
the management of the service would be prohibitively
expensive.
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