Friday, March 5, 2004, 1:06:54 PM, Rognes, Sten (Sten.Rognes@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: RS> I first saw the silver bullet term used in Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month RS> (1974) in the "No silver bullet - essence and accident" essay to describe RS> the "quick relieves" approach in this context. I would not be surprised if RS> that's were the Ingres marketers got the term from.. ? I would think they got it from The Lone Ranger. Hiyoooo Silver, and Away! Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------