Richard Gambrell wrote:

Sorry, but Oracle is *not* an Open system by any reasonable definition!

I can forgive those that forget NT is proprietary, but Oracle definitely is.

Image/sql also conforms to SQL standards, even if a tad older than Oracle's
conformance. The SQL standard is the only thing meaningfully open.

Richard

I have nothing to add to this statement, I just thought it was worth
rereading.

Joseph