Re: MIcrosoft Blackmail

[Yechiel Adar]

Title: OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail

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 ----- From: Thomas Jeff To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:13 AM Subject: OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail 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.