From: Gawnsoft Date: 2004-05-13T20:43:52+09:00 Subject: Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS? On Wed, 12 May 2004 13:14:39 +0200, "Volker Hetzer" wrote (more or less): > >"Quirk" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4e20d3f.0405110058.684e5968@posting.google.com... >> "Volker Hetzer" wrote in message news:... >> >> > > > > > That's not true. >> > >> > > > > Yes it is. >> > >> > > > What was the value of this reply? >> > > >> > > What was the value of yours? Or this latest one? >> > A question is not an answer. >> >> And what was your reply? >I asked first. > >> >> > > Yes, you have the right to be overcharged for work that may or may not >> > > not suit your needs by only _one_ vendor, and no right to go elsewhere >> > > when they fail, ignore you outright, stop supporting your application >> > > or vanish from the face of the earth. Have you actually read your >> > > contract or software licence? >> > Of course. See the end of this posting. >> >> > > It only protects the vendor, not you. >> > I've read the licence and done even more: I've used the software and tested the contract. >> >> Realy, care to quote the part of the Contract that Gaurantees you any >> rights? >http://oracle.com/support/index.html?policies.html > >> By "tested the contarct" what you mean is you agreed to pay them >> completely on their terms and where satisified with the results they >> chose to give you. >So, in what way is it different from let's say, buying a cucumber? You are unlikely to be locked-in to purchase decision for your cucumber for very long. IME they start to go runny after only a week or two in the fridge. -- Cheers, Euan Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122 Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk