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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLE on the cheap... questions   (LONG)
Keywords: Public relations
Message-ID: <599@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 21 Jul 88 08:03:49 GMT
References: <5165@dasys1.UUCP> <8208@ncoast.UUCP> <178@turbo.oracle.UUCP> <302@infmx.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <302@infmx.UUCP>, aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) writes:
> 
> Quoting RTI's Dave Kellogg: 
>> ....companies like Relational Technology, Informix, and Oracle employ
>> literally thousands of people, and each could easily place a designated
>> "net monitor" to fire back accusations at the other vendors.

   Isn't this already the case (not just dbms vendors) ?  How should one in-
   terpret the appearance of solitary net "users" from very large companies,
   usually technically astute, but whose "contributions" invariably
   boost his/her company's products and with few exceptions denigrates com-
   petitors' ??  "fire back" misses the boat - I would say that the real dam-
   age is usually accomplished much more subtly and "professionally".
   
   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny