segel@tellabs.com (Mike Segel) (07/19/90)
[Note: This article is to be taken lightly. Anyone who reads between the lines does so at their own discression and can't hold me personally responsible ] Now that that's out of the way... I attened an Oracle sales presentation on their case products. I wont comment on what I thought of it, cause I am extremely biased. What I did notice, is that in a *canned* video demonstration of their windowing tool, it used pull down menus. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but isn't apple suing everyone and anyone who is producing a major product which uses pull down menu's? Like a violation of their "Look and Feel" ? Did Oracle forget this? Or did they make a special arrangement with Apple? Did Apple merely forget the existance of Oracle since they are not a direct competitor? Inquiring minds want to know ;-) Maybe someone official from Oracle could make an unoffical comment? BTW on a side note I assume that the top three DB's in the Unix environment are Oracle, Informix and Sybase? (By site licenses) Not meaning to exclude others. The reason I ask this, is that I went into a book store and saw two books on the markets relational DBs . One had Oracle, Sybase, and ommitted Informix, yet had a lot of others. (Knowledgeman, Unify, Ingres, Focus, ect ...)Another book specializing in UNIX RDBMS software had Oracle and Informix, among others, yet left out Sybase. Why? How is one to judge the characteristics of a database if suposedly non-partial books leave out key players. Are we supposed to *trust* the salesmen :^) ? -Mike -- Mike Segel | uunet!balr.com | Std.disclaimer BALR Corporation | | implied and Oakbrook, Illinios | uunet!tellabs.com!segel | understood -------------------^-----------------------------------^----------------