Hans Forbrich wrote,on my timestamp of 24/08/2012 5:02 AM: > Yup, based on ambition. After all, they 've picked up 1 company per > month, every month, for the past 10 years. Narrows the opportunities, > and leaves the larger fish as the primary remaining food source. Actually, not a bad point at all! It sounds incredible but nowadays Oracle looks more and more like a second incarnation of CA... > As for MSSQL, with it's current rate of churning out new > enterprise-oriented environments (eg: Windows 8 using Metro), I'm not > sure how much longer Oracle will have to wait to get Microsoft at a > reasonably good price. Tell me about it! Just spent this week doing mostly nothing but recovering my normal desktop environment at work! From the smouldering remains of a "forced" Windows 7 upgrade. I just told the Wintel boyzz the next upgrade they force me to take, I'll do it myself and it'll be to Linux: I'm 200% sure it'll create less havoc! Who is the imbecile at M$ responsible for Win7 destroying the registry? And apparently with Win8, NTFS goes as well and needs a reformat. Like hell I'll ever install that one, mr M$! -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l