• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Len Bullard'" <cbullard@h...>,"'Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\)'" <natyoung@c...>,"'XML Developers List'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:38:13 -0000

> I accept that one wants to find out what the bottlenecks are, 
> but I can't accept that companies this big spending this much 
> money haven't.

Informix bankrupted itself buying Illustra at a price that most people
thought was plain silly.

Don't assume that just because the sum of money has nine digits to the left
of the decimal point, the decision-making process is any more rational than
when you buy a dishwasher; and even when it's rational, it's still highly
risky.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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