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At 9:47 AM -0400 9/3/02, Maciejewski, Thomas wrote: >So if someone is biased or would likely to have a bias towards one solution >is an important bit of information. Yes, it would be. So far we don't have that bit of information. There's no evidence presented that the author of the article in question is in any way biased. There's no evidence that they're paid for the specific purpose of presenting their viewpoint. There are some claims that the author of the article is wrong, but that's a very different point to make. >Like if you talked to an oracle sales person and to a Sybase sales person >about what is the best data solution you would hear two entirely different >stories We're not talking about salespeople here. While Oracle and Sybase salespeople might give very different and very biased opinions on an issue of databases, there are also many people with strong opinions on these databases who are not paid to push one or the other and who are not biased. A --> B does not imply B --> A. One should not assume that just because someone reaches a different conclusion than you do, that they are therefore biased, no matter how sure you are that you're right. That leads to sloppy arguments and bad decision making. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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