I found several hits when googling 

Oxford-Health Oracle fiasco

Is there a particularly good write-up on this story that anyone can
recommend?

I still thought I read about companies that ended up going under (perhaps
VARs) when attempting to migrate from MV/PICK to SQL-based DBMS's.

Thanks.  --dawn

Dawn M. Wolthuis
Tincat Group, Inc.
www.tincat-group.com

Take and give some delight today.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen Egerton
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [U2] Companies going belly up converting from PICK/MV
> 
> On Sun, 16 May 2004 09:05:37 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I've tried to search the archives for some old postings and have been
> >unsuccessful, so sorry for asking for previously posted info.
> >
> >I'm looking for information related to companies that moved or attempted
> to
> >move from applications based on MV to Oracle or other relational
> databases
> >and went belly up in the process.
> >
> >Thanks for any anecdotes or info you can pass along or point me to.  --
> dawn
> 
> Not belly up, but you can't leave Oxford Health Plans out.
> 
> Anecdote:
> Million dollar bonus for transferring data from Universe to Oracle
> tables if done over the weekend.  Not happening fast enough.  "Drop
> the constraints".  Bonus received.  Tables full of garbage.
> 
> --
> Allen Egerton
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