>>>>... but when you look at the database engine in 2008, and then 2012, and then now....there's some real pop to their offerings.
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>>But will it make the boat go faster?
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>>I don't mean the query, I mean the boat- the customer's business. It's been unfashionable to ask that since the start of the century because "everybody knew" that computer tech does make the boat go faster, but it's going to be asked more and more IMHO.
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>>(and yes, I know "faster" should be "quicker" but that's not the popular saying. ;-) )
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>IBM is a TLA for Immer Besser Manuell Always better manually.
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>:)


When I was working for Motorola - we used to say IBM stands for Ich brauche Motorola