Re: Support contracts (was Re: Commercial support?)

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:58, Gianni Mariani wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:59, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> >
>
> >I *like* the fact that my company has a support contract with Oracle
> >on our production databases.
> >DBMSs are extremely complicated beasts, and even though I am expert,
> >and can extract the db from most stack dump conditions, there *are*
> >errors that are beyond my knowledge, but can be quickly solved by
> >someone who lives and breathes Rdb internals.
> >
> That's Tom Lane right ? :-)

Well, no. Oracle purchased Rdb/VMS from DEC back in 1994. (A
surprising number of former DEC engineers are still w/ Oracle.
Of course, the building that O built in a nice wooded area of Nashua
is really nice, and just a tree-lined walk to the OpenVMS engineering
offices, and they all have families, so I'm not surprised they've
stayed.)

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