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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
