RE: SQL Gurus Wanted -- MIDRANGE-L

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From: Jerry Adams

Anyway, I commented at the time that this, in my opinion, made SQL
Server and Oracle proprietary and DB2, relatively speaking, the open
system. (The speaker just smiled.) But, whenever my colleagues on the
Dark Side talk about the "AS/400" (they don't even know the right terms)
being legacy, proprietary, etc., I point this fact out to them. Doesn't
win me any friends or converts, but I like rubbing their collective
noses in it.

I always get a kick out of the fact that in the 90s the big mantra at
Microsoft was that the IBM midrange was proprietary and proprietary is bad
because it means being locked into a single vendor. Now that IBM is the
open platform and Microsoft is proprietary, the new mantra from Redmond is
that proprietary is good, because it means all development under one house.

Typical Microsoft way of dealing with the world: if you don't meet a
standard, change the standard! You know who the perfect spokesman for
Microsoft is? Bill Clinton: "It depends on what the meaning of the word
'is', is."

Joe

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