<flame proof suit>
I hear you, Rich. This "Javafication" is a bunch of
defecation if you ask me. Why couldn't they stick to
Tcl/Tk or Perl or <*gasp*> PL/SQL? You know,
something that works well and doesn't eat all of a
machine's resources. Damn Marketing!
</flame proof suit>
Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
- "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com> wrote:
> Every time I ask the question, I get an answer of
> "soon". Next week was the
> latest, but MetaLink won't have it listed probably
> until November if we're
> lucky (took Oracle two weeks to determine why they
> couldn't ship 8.1.6 for
> OpenVMS to me, even though it was "released"!).
>
> Also, beware of memory requirements in 8.1.7 (as
> opposed to 7.3)! The
> instructor for the Oracle Perf Tuning class I was in
> was told in his Oracle
> training to recommend a *minimum* of 512MB RAM for
> an NT box. This is up
> from 32MB for v7, 64MB on v8, and 256 in 8i/R1+2.
> EGAD! And that's on a
> CISC processor! What about Unix-and-OpenVMS
> RISCs???
>
> Java this, Java that, iFS, HTTP-serving...can I just
> SELECT * FROM
> SCOTT.EMPLOYEE???
>
> [soapbox: off]
>
> Rich Jesse
> System/Database Administrator
> Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech
> International, Sussex, WI
> USA
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