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Comment: Re:Of course Apple are going to take it to court. (Score 3, Informative) 129

by SDrag0n (#42837451) Attached to: Apple Holds Firm As Publishers Settle With DoJ Over e-Book Pricing
You don't seem to understand. You're right, Apple shouldn't have the ability to set prices for other stores, but what they did was get the publishers to agree that they wouldn't allow other stores (aka: Amazon) to sell for prices less than Apple.

That's why there is such a "to do" about this. It's not the way things normally work and that's why the DOJ has brought the lawsuit about.

Comment: Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 1) 49

by SDrag0n (#41520819) Attached to: Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion
I regularly feel like the power of almighty Oracle is slightly overstated. SQL Server has a bad rap from around SQL Server 2000 and under but today it's pretty powerful right out of the box. With that said, I don't have any hard data to back it up, but my guess is its a lot of misconceptions and design flaws. Throw a giant team of people and a boatload of hardware at each solution and I bet you could get similar results, its just that people expect to spend a stupid amount of money on Oracle, not so much on SQL Server.

Comment: Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh? (Score 2) 49

by SDrag0n (#41515945) Attached to: Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion
Scope is important, however there is a common misconception that SQL Server can't handle anything bigger than a few Gigabytes. The largest single SQL Server database I've ever heard of is about 70TB. I'm sure 200TB would find it cramped but it also depends on how you're defining a database.

Comment: Re:Paid for (Score 5, Interesting) 398

by SDrag0n (#41003983) Attached to: Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked
Everybody keeps complaining about the interface. Really it's like it just opens the start menu on bootup. From there you can hang around the desktop all you want. I didn't like it at first but then once I realized that you could hit the start button and stat typing what you wanted, similar to the current start menu, who cares? PLEASE keep bitching about the same thing thinking it'll change. Thanks for your valuable input.

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