RE: Re[2]: Oracle 911 Article - Silver Bullet
- From: "Davey, Alan" <Alan.Davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:33:54 -0700
And if you happen to miss hitting the werewolf with your silver bullet, its
likely to get pretty angry with you.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Freeman, Donald [mailto:dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:28 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Oracle 911 Article - Silver Bullet
I would suspect it's either from one of the old werewolf stories or
from "The Lone Ranger" TV series.
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rognes, Sten
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:07 PM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Re[2]: Oracle 911 Article
>> There are silver bullets indeed. BTW, I do lay claim to being one
>> of the first people to commonly use this term to describe unreachable
>> "holy grails". It was used a lot by Ingres marketeers and I got the
>> trait from them. It was out of favour for a long time but since I've
>> used it again in c.d.o.s. a coupla years ago, it came back into favour.
I first saw the silver bullet term used in Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month
(1974) in the "No silver bullet - essence and accident" essay to describe
the "quick relieves" approach in this context. I would not be surprised if
that's were the Ingres marketers got the term from.. ?
Sten
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