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   From: news.hans@telus.net   
      
   JEDIDIAH wrote:   
      
   >   
   > These products have a reason for being because each product represents   
   > a specialization in it's own right. If given the choice between a   
   > specialist product such as MQ over some element of Oracle bundleware, I   
   > would be inclined to go for the IBM product simply because I know that I   
   > can count on it to be a discrete component that isn't going to be   
   > unecessarily tied to another Oracle product.   
      
   LOL.   
      
   I have been called in after-the-fact in several situations that took that   
   attitude.  (By the way - WebSphere has subsumed MQ Series.  You were saying   
   about Bundleware?)   
      
   In each and every case, vendor's response was "well it wouldn't happen if   
   you used 'our' DB".   
      
   In each and every case, the solution was to take advantage of the selected   
   DB's capabilities instead of reinventing a bolt-on.   
      
   And in each and every case, the customer paid heavily for the software - in   
   one case they added $10M to the bill to have 'vendor X's queueing solution'   
   instead of using the freely supplied Oracle AQ (which did the same thing).   
      
   Smart - wot?   
      
   If YOUR organization has extra money to do these kinds of things, please let   
   me know.  I have a few unnecessary solutions I could recommend.   
      
   'nuff said!   
   /Hans   
      
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