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Microsoft kills Visual Studio's Oracle data connection
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Don't Microsoft have an "open source" division they could hand the project to instead?
Anyway, yah... insert tin foil hat disclaimer here, but something smells foul.
Anyway, yah... insert tin foil hat disclaimer here, but something smells foul.
*Laughing*
Software freedom is an abstract concept that nobody cares about, right?
Software freedom is an abstract concept that nobody cares about, right?
> Are the war chests really empty or is this a preemtive strike against the Oracle/Sun power house?
Do you really have to ask? Microsoft has no interest in supporting a competitor's product once they feel their own is ready.
> How well does SQL-server stack up against Solaris/Oracle?
IMO (and no, I'm not a database person, merely an outside observer), it doesn't, but I believe Microsoft disagrees.
Do you really have to ask? Microsoft has no interest in supporting a competitor's product once they feel their own is ready.
> How well does SQL-server stack up against Solaris/Oracle?
IMO (and no, I'm not a database person, merely an outside observer), it doesn't, but I believe Microsoft disagrees.
If ever there were a business case to make against CLOS, this could be case study #1.
I had the same suspicions when I read this article.
I think the angle is "Make Oracle (and/or other 3rd party devs) play catchup." It's worked in the past, particularly during the OS/2/Windows 3 switcheroo in 1993.
The only things that played catchup and won are Mozilla. Everyone else is eating dust.
I think the angle is "Make Oracle (and/or other 3rd party devs) play catchup." It's worked in the past, particularly during the OS/2/Windows 3 switcheroo in 1993.
The only things that played catchup and won are Mozilla. Everyone else is eating dust.
Solaris/Oracle crushes Windows Server/MS-SQL Server for really serious workloads, but Microsoft believes that their product is good enough to be marketable. And on that, they are probably right. Marketing often trumps technical superiority. The marketing doesn't even need to be better, sometimes just overwhelmingly pervasive is good enough. And that seems to be Microsoft's method.
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Are the war chests really empty or is this a preemtive strike against the Oracle/Sun power house? How well does SQL-server stack up against Solaris/Oracle?
Maybe I have a case of "Tin Foil Hattitis", but the move strikes me as the anti-thesis of "Developers, developers, developers, developers!"