IMHO, I believe that companies are playing nice because of the larger threat of open source. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:47 AM To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: oracle linux On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 05:49, Beon Smal wrote: > Who cares, Larry doesn't like M$ in any case. I care, since I have no choice but to work with Windows, and a developer that writes for Windows. The ODBC support is, shall we say, less than stellar. Making it simpler for MS type programmers, which there always seems to be an abundance of, to work with Oracle would help eliminate any thoughts of moving to SQL Server. In case you've missed the news, Gates and Ellison are playing nice, both realizing there is more $$ in it for each of them if they do. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------