Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:
> 
> > At 09:48 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > >Maybe that is true.  Having phantom column all over the code is going to
> > >be a mess, and hardly worth it considering how many developers there are
> > >and how many _big_ items still have to be done.
> >
> > Works for Oracle...I guess Postgres is just an obviously more robust,
> > faster, more reliable, and altogether more brilliant RDBMS than this
> > loser commercial DB?  It's really hard to understand why Postgres has
> > had such a poor reputation over the years when faced with such facts,
> > isn't it?
> 
> Woah ... pull back here ... I haven't got a *clue* where this response
> came from, but, from what I can tell, it was *totally* uncalled
> for.  Oracle makes how many *millions* of dollars a year to sink into
                               ^^^^^^^^
Billions. Oracle had 8.82 billion in sales in FY 1999, 1.2
billion in earnings (profit). 

> programmers dedicated to it?  

Oracle has 43,800 employees.

> We have how many developers in comparison,
> who don't get paid and who work on things they feel is important ... and,
> there are alot bigger items on the TODO list ...

The market capitalization of Oracle before the split a week ago
was $147 billion dollars. Larry Ellison owns 24% of the company
and is thus worth $35 billion dollars alone.  The least Don could
do is buy a T-shirt or a key ring or something... ;-)

Mike Mascari