Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

  • From: Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Schultz, Charles" <sac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:48:37 -0400

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:18:25AM -0500, Schultz, Charles wrote:
> the politics surrounding the software really get under my skin.


It seems like the things that irritate are a direct result of corporate
focus intended to keep the company financially strong.  Keeping the
company financially strong and investing in the db product are not
synonymous.  In "Oracle Insights," one of the experts wrote:

"But Oracle needs to reinvent itself.   No company can survive on a
database only revenue stream in the next 10 years.  ... buying people
and alternative products) seems the only way that Oracle can remain big
enough to be a really important player in the market."

By definition, we jump ship when MySQL or whatever delivers, just as we
dumped comercial Unixes/Unices/Unixen for linux years ago.  Oracle Corp
knows it well, they are very smart.  

Mary must be responding to this:

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/May/0182.html

"As a business, Oracle can't say, "Oops. We've been mistaken all
these years - turns out our database isn't a secure as we actually thought."
A company like Microsoft can, and indeed did, something just like that but
their business was never built on what was supposed to be a reputation for
and a foundation of security."  - David Litchfield 
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