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Dear Boss,
With regard to the proposed demo by aVendor, while I appreciate their requirements to run their software against our production database I think I should point out a few pitfalls. It is considered critical in IT that any software produced here should go through certain QA/Testing procedures before going live. This briefly is to prevent untested software from trashing the database and the associated (horrific) downtime cost in recovering things.
If we don't trust our own employees whose jobs depend on it working correctly then I certainly don't think it is appropriate to allow untried and untested software from an external source.
However, if corporate policy is to change to reflect this then I quite understand and upon recipt of the new policy I suggest I begin an evaluation of the required processes and hardware to prevent any adverse business impact. Arranging to lease a complete product server mirror should be the minuimum considered and I will initiate this ASAP.
Initial impact analysis indicated we will be in a position to organise the demo in a 4 months and I will inform aVendor of this tomorrow. This will also give us to arrange and test the disaster recovery procedure and allow our legal team the time to discuss penalty clauses.
regards
George
P.S. how many g's in 'resignation' and how many in 'bugger'?
GB.
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> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> How many of you would allow a vendor to come in and do a demo on a
> PRODUCTION
> DATABASE?
>
> I am being overridden. I am being told to allow it, it's
> their database
> and
> if
> they hose it (who knows what this thing is going to do?) it's their
> problem.
> What? It's just a reporting tool, but STILL! I am concerned about it
> starting
> runaway queries and eating up resources reserved for CUSTOMERS.
>
> Can you feel my headache all the way from Minneapolis.... I
> should just
> take
> the afternoon off.
> Lisa
>
>
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