Re: Websphere vs. BEA seminar - NDA Required?

[Chuck Lundgren <lundgren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a story on the WebSphere vs. BEA numbers game at
<http://www.webspherepro.com/wparchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&ContentID=223&publicationid=3&Channel=9&searchtext=bea>.
FYI.

  ... Chuck

At 10/12/2001 04:26 PM -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone else gotten the WebSphere vs. BEA seminar invitation from IBM?
>Mine came from Partner World for Developers.
>
>Anyway, the e-mail claims they'll tell us that WS can cost 1/2 what WebLogic
>costs, perform twice as fast, be more productive, etc. They say their team
>"has the facts you need to Crush BEA" and we'll be armed "with necessary
>information to smash the competition." Only one catch, we need to sign a NDA
>to get this information. How the hell are we supposed to "crush the
>competition" when we can't disclose this great information? I can see the
>conversation now:
>
>Customer: "I'm going w/BEA"
>Partner: "No, you really need to use WebSphere, it's soooo much better"
>Customer: "Really, that's not what BEA says"
>Partner: "Well, we have the numbers to prove WS is better."
>Customer: "Great. With those I can convince my management. What are they?"
>Partner: "I'm sorry, I can't tell you... Well, I could, but then I'd have to
>kill you!" <G>
>
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