[Info-vax] RDB Question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/3/18 12:39 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <g6j6ruFlf4nU2 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Except that oracle has to be willing to release RdB to VSI
>> and I certainly can't see a business argument for that, quite
>> the opposite actually.
> 
> If there is a business argument against releasing it, then there is a
> business argument against dropping it.
> 

Don't follow that logic at all.  Dropping it would be because
the cost/profit ratio had declined to something unacceptable.
Releasing it leaves it on the market as a potential competitor,
takes time, takes effort, and takes money.  Not releasing it
and just letting it die takes nothing.

bill