> DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like the old Oracle vs. Ingress battles. Oracle won because it > was > better at marketing. All detailed in the book "The Difference Between > God > and Larry Ellison". I can see it now -- MySQL, the Oracle of the free
Bzzzt. Oracle won because it actually delivered a database that could be recovered from after a system crash. Which Ingres never did despite their claims to the contrary. And because Oracle's product could actually deliver performance very similar to Ingres, despite the unilateral RTI claims that their code was "vastly" superior. A similar situation to Sybase, really. It's really very simple: Ingres lost because they did not over the years deliver any major improvement to the original Uni-developed code. They simply milked it out all it could, then folded. Typical attitude back then. And I don't give a hoot what the book says: I WAS there, back then. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nuno Pinto do Souto 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).
