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- From: lynne@hightop.hac.com (Lynne Case)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.ingres
- Subject: Re: I heard a Rumor about Oracle 7 and Forms
- Message-ID: <24048@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:34:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.184731.21707@cs.rochester.edu> <1711@niktow.canisius.edu>
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- In article <1711@niktow.canisius.edu>, pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov13.184731.21707@cs.rochester.edu>, zhang@cs.rochester.edu (Zhang Ju) writes:
- |> >
- |> > I heard a rumor which goes that the delay of ORACLE 7 is because of its
- |> > incompatibility with Forms 3. So Oracle 7 is actually waiting for Forms 4.
- |> >
- |> I wouldn't worry about this too much. ORACLE uses product release dates as
- |> a marketing tool: don't buy Brand x because we have a New Improved coming
- |> out that will run circles around it. As far as I am aware, ORACLE has never
- |> come close to meeting an ADVERTISED release date - tho it may be meeting
- |> internally-set deadlines, I don't know - and is usually very creative in
- |> the many reasons given (directly and via "rumor") why the release is "delayed"
-
- I agree. If you waited this long for Oracle 7 you might as well wait a
- little longer. I went to Oracle's corporate office two years ago so they
- could tell us all about how great Oracle 7 is going to be. We have
- since won the contract they were trying to sell us version 7 for. I am
- glad that we know better than to listen to the bull**** that comes out of
- their marketing department, because our customer might be expecting us to
- actually deliver something with a product that STILL hasn't been released.
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