[Info-vax] Oracle and HP end Exadata partnership

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7hhr0gF2u15qvU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
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> And then think of the economic impact on the EU when all of Oracle's
> current EU customers have to make an overnight change to another DB.

   There's no reason that the EU would have to respond by making that
   requirement.  Existing systems would keep running for a bit without
   Oracle making a single additional penny.

> But then, that's why government should keep it's nose out of business
> beyond when actual illegal activity is taking place.

   You didn't happen to notice the trouble the US economy got into last
   year because the government failed to provide adaquate regulation?

   Mysteriously similar to what happend in the late 1920's leading to
   regulation in the first place.