Re: WHY
From: Harlan Grove (hrlngrv_at_aol.com)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:47:16 -0800
<aaron_kempf@hotmail.com> wrote...
>more people _SHOULD_ have access.
In the sense that there may be a few hundred high-end users who don't have
it who could put it to work, agreed. For the rest it's a cost/benefit
trade-off.
>Microsoft has 1/5 marketshare of RDBMS and they're obviously doing
something
>wrong. (I expected them to have double that market share by now)
That or Microsoft (1) really can't compete when they face off against an
even bigger SOB (Oracle), (2) really can't compete on price performance
against *existing* mainframe databases, (3) can't compete against Linux and
BSD systems running other RDBMSs on web servers in terms of security (yeah,
I've heard that Windows Server 2003 will fix lots that's wrong with Windows
security, but I'm not holding my breath).
>They need to either DROP ACCESS or DO SOMETHING WITH IT.
...
Of all the foolish things you've written to date, this is the most foolish.
Microsoft sells software to make people's lives wonderful?! No, Microsoft
sells software to make money, as much as they can for as little development
effort as possible. They are very, very good at doing so (though being a
monopoly in a country with a government that's the neutered and defanged lap
dog of big business doesn't exactly hurt). I think they have a MUCH BETTER
idea of how to make money than you do on their behalf, and if they believe
the expense of pushing Access isn't worth it, I'd be prepared to trust their
judgment. While I don't like a lot of what Microsoft does or sells, I give
them their due - they know how to wring money out of their customers.
>d) start competing more with IBM and Oracle-- push them out of business
even
>if it means you give away all of the SQL Server toolset.
...
See previous comments about SOBs/Oracle.
With regard to IBM, I believe MSFT still licenses a lot of IBM patents. Hard
to drive a company out of business that can seriously screw up your own
products by revoking licenses. Also difficult to imagine how MSFT can do
anything against the mainframe market. Or the PPC market. Or any hardware
market. I believe mouses and the Xbox are the only nonsoftware products MSFT
has ever made money on.
>People should leave the number crunching to people with the right tools to
>do it.
Even more important, they should leave it to the people who know what number
crunching is and that it isn't database reporting.
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