Digg is already heavily biased and I'm pretty sure it's because of astroturfing by political campaigns (Ron Paul, Obama) and ultra-liberal blogs. If you look at the Political section of digg (something that I filter out now), you notice that it's about 99% moon-bat liberal (except for Ron Paul). I believe that studies have been conducted that indicate that liberals tend to spend more time on the internet than conservatives (and conservatives do talk radio more than liberals), but that can't possibly account for this level of bias. Thinkprogress, dailykos, crooksandliars are all *heavily* partisan and continually have stories on digg, and the comments sections for those stories will always shout down (bury) any dissenting view. After reading digg/Politics for months, I highly suspect that this effect is caused by an organized effort.
Actually, you both are correct. PeopleSoft is an applications vendor, so we help companies keep track of their stuff (money, employees, customers, etc.) which is not easy to do when the company gets large (this is an admittedly very simplified explanation of what we do). On the surface, Oracle seeks to acquire Psoft, kill the product off (bug fixes only), and convert its customers over to Oracle applications on Oracle's database. For a very large segment of ERP customers world-wide, this will mean that they will need an Oracle database and support staff in house (expensive)... and once they have one Oracle DB, others will follow. So, one reason they want to acquire Psoft, and there are many, is that they need some way to keep their DB market share from eroding (the database market is, I'm guessing, probably 70% of their revenue). Oracle's DB market share is and has been eroding (there is an IDC report on it here: http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid41_gci910853,00.html ) for some time and it will continue until Oracle lowers its prices to meet comparable products like DB2/UDB, MSSQL, and Sybase. In either case (lower prices or fewer units sold) they will be losing money as time rolls on... and they know it. Acquiring Psoft and shutting it down will corral customers into running Oracle DB whether they like it or not and provide applications revenue assuming they don't go with SAP. Also, the victims, I mean customers, will be paying higher prices because they don't have a choice of going with PeopleSoft on DB2/Linux, or MSSQL/Windows, or whatever.
Let me see what I can do about PeopleSoft supporting KHTML. We have supported Linux/Unix clients for quite some time (now we also fully support it as a server ) and I don't know why we wouldn't add this to the list. It might get shot down but I'll run it up the flag pole for you. Excellent suggestion.
Be Well --
Actually, PeopleSoft doesn't do this. We tend to keep it as simple as possible while still doing what the client wants, however, our implimentation "partners" sometimes do (for the reasons you mention)... sorry if things went bad for you.
-= Balzak =-
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Digg is already heavily biased and I'm pretty sure it's because of astroturfing by political campaigns (Ron Paul, Obama) and ultra-liberal blogs. If you look at the Political section of digg (something that I filter out now), you notice that it's about 99% moon-bat liberal (except for Ron Paul). I believe that studies have been conducted that indicate that liberals tend to spend more time on the internet than conservatives (and conservatives do talk radio more than liberals), but that can't possibly account for this level of bias. Thinkprogress, dailykos, crooksandliars are all *heavily* partisan and continually have stories on digg, and the comments sections for those stories will always shout down (bury) any dissenting view. After reading digg/Politics for months, I highly suspect that this effect is caused by an organized effort.
Actually, you both are correct. PeopleSoft is an applications vendor, so we help companies keep track of their stuff (money, employees, customers, etc.) which is not easy to do when the company gets large (this is an admittedly very simplified explanation of what we do). On the surface, Oracle seeks to acquire Psoft, kill the product off (bug fixes only), and convert its customers over to Oracle applications on Oracle's database. For a very large segment of ERP customers world-wide, this will mean that they will need an Oracle database and support staff in house (expensive) ... and once they have one Oracle DB, others will follow. So, one reason they want to acquire Psoft, and there are many, is that they need some way to keep their DB market share from eroding (the database market is, I'm guessing, probably 70% of their revenue). Oracle's DB market share is and has been eroding (there is an IDC report on it here: http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/originalContent /0,289142,sid41_gci910853,00.html ) for some time and it will continue until Oracle lowers its prices to meet comparable products like DB2/UDB, MSSQL, and Sybase. In either case (lower prices or fewer units sold) they will be losing money as time rolls on ... and they know it. Acquiring Psoft and shutting it down will corral customers into running Oracle DB whether they like it or not and provide applications revenue assuming they don't go with SAP. Also, the victims, I mean customers, will be paying higher prices because they don't have a choice of going with PeopleSoft on DB2/Linux, or MSSQL/Windows, or whatever.
Let me see what I can do about PeopleSoft supporting KHTML. We have supported Linux/Unix clients for quite some time (now we also fully support it as a server ) and I don't know why we wouldn't add this to the list. It might get shot down but I'll run it up the flag pole for you. Excellent suggestion. Be Well --
Actually, PeopleSoft doesn't do this. We tend to keep it as simple as possible while still doing what the client wants, however, our implimentation "partners" sometimes do (for the reasons you mention)... sorry if things went bad for you. -= Balzak =-