Okay, since I provided the original remark that provoked this line of
discussion, let me clarify. The organization I was asking whether they were
a shill for Microsoft is the Aberdeen Group, the people that did the report
that made Microsoft look great and Linux look bad. I don't think it matters
w
Ok, thanks.
After trying to follow the trail of owners, I think tracking who owns what
is a full-time job...
Pat.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:14 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
David Coursey, one of their Editors/Columnists made the disclaimer s
David Coursey, one of their Editors/Columnists made the disclaimer some
time back when he was comparing different software offerings of some
type. He mentioned that MS had some type of ownership in them or their
parent company. I don't recall which.
Rodd
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:03, Boivin, Pat
Rodd,
Where do you see evidence that Ziff-Davis is owned by Microsoft?
The links seem to lead to a UK publishing firm.
www.ziffdavis.com --> http://www.willisstein.com/ --> www.emac.com
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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Ah, what do we know... According to Microsoft, we are just glorified Order
Clerks...
"You want users with that database?"
"For another $1.00, I can Supersize that datafile."
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Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:24 AM
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Patrice -
Ziff-Davis, did they own PC Magazine?
I am still annoyed at their coverage of OS/2...
Pat.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:27 PM
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Go figure. This was published on a ZiffDavis news site. ZD is either
majority or wholly ow
Go figure. This was published on a ZiffDavis news site. ZD is either
majority or wholly owned by Microsoft. Do you suppose there might be a
bit of a slant there?
Rodd Holman
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:23, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> Patrice - Amazing how these things happen. A few weeks ago a r
Title: BackupExec & Oracle
You've got to
love blinkered analyst reports - SQL Server alone has had nearly a dozen
critical security issues this year (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q316333&id=Q316333).
But I guess that doesn't count :-)
Ciao
Fuzzy
(yes, I'm back -
Patrice - Amazing how these things happen. A few weeks ago a report listed
Microsoft products as among the worst security risks. Microsoft immediately
attacked the report. Then by an amazing coincidence, an "impartial"
organization releases a report stating that Microsoft's greatest competitor,
the
