Re: Changed to: Interactive Tax

That is my point.  IBM doesn't have a monopoly.  You can migrate your app to
ORacle on Unix, use SOAP for your business logic, and a small web client or
VB/Delphi client for your display.

You only have to go to IBM for green screen.  But that is like saying MS has
a monopoly on your application because you wrote it in VB, which only MS
provides.  You can rewrite it for soemthing else if you want, though.

Proprietary is not a monopoly.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Changed to: Interactive Tax


> I'm sure the Oracle people would disagree with that.
> Didn't the Oracle guy just a few weeks ago say that
> Oracle beats DB2 hands down?
>
> From: Adam Lang <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
>
> > You had to go to Standard Oil to use a combustion engine.
> > You have to go to IBM to handle large databases?
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
list
> To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l
> or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
>
>