[rescue] Perverse Question

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:37:24PM -0400, R. Lonstein wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:25:30PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> 	[snip]
> > True, but there is also a fair amount of Sybase and Solaris in such
> > institutions (though no doubt Oracle is replacing Sybase these days).
> 	[snip]
> 
> Much less than you might think.

Tell us more :-)

The last time I spoke to anyone at Merrill Lynch was back in 1996 when
I was selling NextStep (in this case, for Sparc).  The NextStep DBKit
which later became EOF was considered the bee's knees for custom
db-backed apps.  At that time Sybase and Oracle were in close
competition.

Cordially
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