Re: MS interview

tim@proximity.com.au (Tim Allen) writes:

: [...]  Near the end he gets specifically asked about "Red Hat
: Database" as a competitive threat, and he responds that he doesn't
: think anyone can match their "investment" of "800 professionals" to
: work on SQL Server.  [...]

It would be naive to dismiss Microsoft's (or Oracle's, or IBM's)
database teams.  They have many very smart developers/researchers
working full time on these systems.  The investment is quite real.


tgl wrote:

: The longer that Oracle, MS, et al don't believe we're a threat, the
: better.  But I wonder how they *really* see us.  [...]

Good question.


- FChE