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To: D. Noll who wrote (283)	1/29/1999 9:48:00 AM
From: treetopflier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 583

Dr. Noll If you are going to level a personal assault if would be nice if you had a clue first. So you are an expert in JDEC's object oriented design are you? And you clearly understand how they provided the ability for the data and programs to be located anywhere. And you have realized that it means they have to do their 'joins' in program logic. And you have seen their design and know that they have rows that don't even fit in 4K blocks because they contain so many columns. I'll pit my years of UNIX/RDBMS/SQL/Shell script and project management against whatever you possess any day of the week. My lack of technical knowledge shines through... Well the MBA in 1985 was followed by 14 years of large scale project management, the last 12 on UNIX (all flavors since I sold DB and tools for ORCL for three of those years). And I had the unfortunate experience of spending 3 years installing and supporting financial systems on System 38's and AS400s. Enjoy your JDEC investment! Come back here and tell us more about the glorious products underlying your investment. And it you want to make it personal, fine. But you better have your OWN credentials to back up your crap. I have been writing SQL since 1982 -- have you? ttf P.S. Besides knowing how to spell UNIX what else do you know about free love? Right now I am loving a 3x in SUNW! Having worked for years with all the UNIX porting groups at ORCL, it is pretty clear who the UNIX winner will be and it ain't HP or DEC. Too bad for JDEC they couldn't pick Solaris or AIX, but then again they are new to Open Systems, as are you D. Noll.

To: D. Noll who wrote (283)	1/30/1999 1:49:00 AM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 583

UNIX is for the idealist, love-children of the '60s and '70's that believe an operating system has to be "open" and "freely accessible" to be of any value. These are the same types that believe in ESPERANTO, the metric-system and uni-sex bathrooms. DNoll, you seem to be a self proclaimed expert on DB's. But, this statement makes me think that you aren't very in tune with the current world. While NT platform DB engines have been widely deployed in non-critical apps. The VAST majority of transaction processing related DB applications that are client/server based are UNIX and are likely to remain UNIX until the day comes that NT is really a full fledge operating system. FWIW, I'm not a UNIX guru by any stretch. My company is totally geared around NT development. But, I see what's out there and what people are buying. There has been virtually no change at the high end of the DB business. UNIX is still on top in all the big apps and co's. If you don't think so then I don't think you know much about the DB biz...