There is a question about whether all databases are equal, just different, or whether a company can really save considerable dollars by choosing products based on one rather than another.
While some folks think that the database product is irrelevant and it is the application that makes a difference, companies over the past couple of decades have thought that they must convert to Oracle and more recently to SQL Server or DB2. Because the anecdotal evidence is not there for such moves doing anything to save companies dollars (although they often do succeed in improving the resumes of those in IT), I started researching this area a bit more. I had thought that relational theory was "truth" and I no longer have such delusions. So, you could be correct that they are just business case studies of people making mistakes, but one of those mistakes might just be their technology choices. Cheers! --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 Donald Kibbey > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [U2] Companies going belly up converting from PICK/MV > > These all sound like companies that had issues because management were > morons, and not because they used database X or Y. > > > Don Kibbey > Financial Systems Manager > Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP > ------- > 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
