Visionary must mean "seeing things"

#11

Well I'm sure there was a time they considered 'VISTA' a visionary OS over XP.
Isn't that what VISTA stands for ?

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Subject: [Info-Ingres] Visionary must mean "seeing things"

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant report, MySQL is more "visionary" than Ingres:
http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatfor...r/default.aspx.

I am sure Gartner is privy to the confidential plans of all the participants, and this report is limited to data warehousing, but I will still be fascinated to learn that Sun even has a vision for MySQL. (It still couldn't explain why they thought MySQL AB (the
company) was worth a squillion dollars though, even at 0% interest.)

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#12

"Roy Hann" <specially (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote

Quote:

On Web wrote:

I'm begining to imagine that ingres DBAs have a uniform and it's made of
leather. It's not a pretty image.

True story: I actually once met an Ingres DBA "a-clothed all in leather"
(as the song goes), and I can tell you she was a VERY pretty image. :-)

...and then you woke up..

Quote:

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#13

On Jan 13, 9:03*am, Roy Hann <specia... (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote:

Quote:

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant report, MySQL is more
"visionary" than Ingres:http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatfor...r/default.aspx.

I am sure Gartner is privy to the confidential plans of all the
participants, and this report is limited to data warehousing, but I
will still be fascinated to learn that Sun even has a vision for
MySQL. *(It still couldn't explain why they thought MySQL AB (the
company) was worth a squillion dollars though, even at 0% interest.)

--
Roy

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that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

#14

michaelnewport (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

Quote:

On Jan 13, 9:03*am, Roy Hann <specia... (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote:
According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant report, MySQL is more
"visionary" than Ingres:http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatfor...r/default.aspx.

I am sure Gartner is privy to the confidential plans of all the
participants, and this report is limited to data warehousing, but I
will still be fascinated to learn that Sun even has a vision for
MySQL. *(It still couldn't explain why they thought MySQL AB (the
company) was worth a squillion dollars though, even at 0% interest.)

that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

I assume you are using some special definition of "Open Source" that you
have chosen not to share with us.

--
Roy

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#15

I'm just pissed off that I didn't seize the opportunity to use the expression:
'culinary-lingous'

How could I have missed that?

Marty

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michaelnewport (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

Quote:

On Jan 13, 9:03*am, Roy Hann <specia... (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote:
According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant report, MySQL is more
"visionary" than Ingres:http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatfor...r/default.aspx.

I am sure Gartner is privy to the confidential plans of all the
participants, and this report is limited to data warehousing, but I
will still be fascinated to learn that Sun even has a vision for
MySQL. *(It still couldn't explain why they thought MySQL AB (the
company) was worth a squillion dollars though, even at 0% interest.)

that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

I assume you are using some special definition of "Open Source" that you
have chosen not to share with us.

--
Roy

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#16

On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Roy Hann wrote:

Quote:

michaelnewport (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

On Jan 13, 9:03 am, Roy Hann <specia... (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote:
According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant report, MySQL is more
"visionary" than Ingres:http://blogs.technet.com/
dataplatforminsider/default.aspx.

I am sure Gartner is privy to the confidential plans of all the
participants, and this report is limited to data warehousing, but I
will still be fascinated to learn that Sun even has a vision for
MySQL. (It still couldn't explain why they thought MySQL AB (the
company) was worth a squillion dollars though, even at 0% interest.)

that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

I assume you are using some special definition of "Open Source"
that you
have chosen not to share with us.

I thought he was using a special definition of "original".

In any case, databases aren't code, and can't be open source. So I
guess the entire statement is meaningless.

Karl

#17

Roy Hann wrote:

Quote:

that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

I assume you are using some special definition of "Open Source" that you
have chosen not to share with us.

I think the wink meant he was kidding, playing on a certain cohort's (and
the press's) unawareness of the history of these things.

--jkl

#18

James K. Lowden wrote:

Quote:

Roy Hann wrote:

that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

I assume you are using some special definition of "Open Source" that you
have chosen not to share with us.

I think the wink meant he was kidding, playing on a certain cohort's (and
the press's) unawareness of the history of these things.

Perhaps you're right.

--
Roy

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#19

On Jan 15, 9:14*am, Roy Hann <specia... (AT) processed (DOT) almost.meat> wrote:

Quote:

James K. Lowden wrote:
Roy Hann wrote:

that's cos MySQL was the original Open Source database....;-)

I assume you are using some special definition of "Open Source" that you
have chosen not to share with us. *

I think the wink meant he was kidding, playing on a certain cohort's (and
the press's) unawareness of the history of these things. *

Perhaps you're right.

--
Roy

yes and no....

I have just downloaded Ubuntu, I see MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Firebird.....but alas no Ingres