Leaked: Sun's project to migrate migrate customers using Oracle to MySQL

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I wonder how many other companies have internal presentations for their sales staff on how to win business from competitors, regardless of the alleged suitability of their product?

I bet most companies would have strategies for this type of stuff (stealing sales, recruiting team members from competitors) -- even if it's not explicit documents such as the one in the OP.

I think if the product is good enough to get the job done, and it meets the customer's needs without too much pain then why not?

I think what I was trying to say is that it's not exactly a shock that they should be trying to get Oracle customers where MySQL would work fine.

In fact, not doing this would more shocking.

Agreed! :)

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