Re: PHP can't lose to Micro$oft - Please HELP!

Hey Guys, Lets face it, the are plenty of IT managers out there who want to sound as if they know what they're talking about, even if they don't. Dropping names like 'Oracle' and 'IBM' and a few others into repoprts makes them look solid. But it doen't mean that they are right. Whe I first got the job I currently have (electronic document delivery manager), the project was a start-up and right from the beginning I said that we just had to go with PDF. Well, the director, being a bit of a pseudo-academic wanted SGML. I was flogging a dead horse. Then we had a presentation from a 'considered cutting edge at the time' company who were touting for business and as part of their presentation, the said that SGML was dead in the ater as far as doc delivery was concerned and PDF was the future. Since then my judgement was never questioned (though maybe it should have been from time to time). Just my 2c George P ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Williams" <matt@yewlands.com> To: "Dave Watkinson" <d.watkinson@mightymatch.com>; <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 8:36 AM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] PHP can't lose to Micro$oft - Please HELP! > > > Maybe you could start your own company and "invoice" for a MySQL > > installation? You could charge something ridiculous like $50,000 and an > > annual maintenance charge of $10,000. > > > > Would that make them happy? > > > > Would it make you happy :-) > > M@ > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com