From: efrazier
Date: April 30 1999 6:16pm
Subject: Re: Oracle vs MySQL contest
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Replace programmers with Engineers and you pretty much have NASA  Why on
earth would anyone want to use technology that came from a bunch of
Engineers hacking together spaceships? So basically your bosses should just
turn off their computers and go plant the fields(with a donkey) :) 

Eric 

At 11:11 AM 4/30/99 PDT, you wrote:
>
>
>I have a similar discussion with people in my company.
>I had been using MySQL for non-production purposes internally and have
>been trying to use it for production level things/tools.
>
>But all the executives and VPs are not comfortable and their
>reason is:
>   I have to base my business on something is that almost free and
>hack together by a bunch of programmers?
>They also said that if we use Oracle and it failed, we can
>at least sue them  :)
>
>--V