On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 17:02, Robert Treat wrote: > I don't think *we* thought it was a hot button issue.. at least I > certainly didn't when I initially responded.
Well, I hear that. I think this little exercise though, is good for the community as a whole. It's a concern I think lots of business will have, especially as more move *away* from oracle. We don't like paying them 2M for just licensing, and then another 200+K for "support". that's for approximately a 1 year contract. The thing you do get from "them" though, is a CD and a support matrix. I think most support organizations will get to that point, even for OSS, cause it makes troubleshooting and support *mostly* easier. But NO, I don't want to see it closed. > There is no need for you to > apologize, in fact, I'll apologize for the list, we sometimes get a > little heated on -hackers. Hopefully you've not been to startled by this > outburst :-) Thanks much, and certainly not startled. I just don't like inciting a riot, if I wasn't trying to. ;) Thanks again all. > Robert Treat -- Austin Gonyou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coremetrics, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly