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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:	DEC Rdb against the World

Moderator:	HERON::GODFRIND

Created:	Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1348
Total number of notes:	5438

540.0. "ORACLE Quotable Quotes !!!" by SNOC01::BELAKHOVM (Target sighted - FIRE !!!) Thu Jan 18 1990 00:46

    I thought it would be good to have a note on ORACLE "quotable quotes".
    
    A consultant (large accounting firm) was given a presentation by Oracle
    last week.  This guy is very friendly towards Digital, so he relayed
    the following quote:
    
    The Oracle salesman doing the presentation started off by saying:
    
    "Oracle corporation will be bigger than Digital by 1995 and bigger than
    IBM by 2001."
    
    This certainly is quite funny, however, some of the customers believe
    them.
    
    Maybe they should change their name to Ripley's (Believe it or NOT).
    (:-)
    
    Michael

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
540.1	make that Larry's	MAIL::DUNCANG	Gerry Duncan @KCO	`Thu Jan 18 1990 03:49`	6
	Instead of Ripley's Believe it or Not ... it should be ..... Larry's Believe it or Rot ....
540.2	Reboot VMS everynight !!	MAIL::DUNCANG	Gerry Duncan @KCO	`Thu Jan 18 1990 03:52`	9
	Here's one for you .... An Oracle level III support person (level I is the grunt the customer gets when the call for support) told my customer to reboot VMS EVERY night in order to "... clean up all the VMS fragmentation ..." and that this would help the Oracle performance. When I challenged him on this .... he lied to me .... said it came from the customer .....
540.3	Where do they get this stuff from !!!	SNOC01::BELAKHOVM	Target sighted - FIRE !!!	`Thu Jan 18 1990 23:39`	8
	This one came from a customer yesterday. He was told by the Oracle salesman that V6 DID support VAXclusters and used the distributed lock manager (DLM) to do it. However, due to the bugs in the DLM that Digital put in, Oracle do not recommend that customers use clusters.
540.4	Out of the mouth of babes	DPDMAI::DAVISGB	Gil Davis DTN 554-7245	`Fri Jan 19 1990 00:36`	12
	How about the customer I ran into in Los Alamos.... "Oracle has more features and is faster than any other database on the market" "Where did you hear that?" I asked.... " From the Oracle salesrep, of course..." I felt like asking "Were her lips moving when she said it?"