On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 11:52, Chris Browne wrote:
> And the"dramatically reducing cost" and "instant grow of client base"
> are both illusions.
>
> 1. CA doesn't save money by porting their applications to run on
> Ingres; it _costs_ them money to do so.
>
> 2. CA doesn't instantly grow its client base, unless there is some
> magical reason to imagine that new customers will suddenly want
> to start buying products from CA because these products have
> been ported to run on Ingres.
>
Agreed. ISTM if they really wanted to accomplish those goals, they would
port all of their stuff to postgresql. They then lose all of those costs
of having to maintain and develop an open source project as well as
being able to increase a customer base since customer data is not
beholden to a single vendor and customers don't have to bet their
futures on CA's fortune. (both things that they are actually making
worse by porting all their apps to ingres).
Robert Treat
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