RE: Homepage and Internet services for the DBA

From: Kevin Kostyszyn <kevin_at_dulcian.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:18:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002B9DAE.20010221102045@fatcity.com>

MetaStink...hahahhaah....you should forward that to Oracle support

-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Mohan, RossSent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:06 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Homepage and Internet services for the DBA
 Good
 call.

Here's an idea: put a little tab on MetaStink about "System"

 It
 would tell current users, 24hour peak, number of CPUs, amount of RAM, throughput, etc. .


 I
 bet I could win that $1 Million they are offering if they let me rebuild their slack web site with DB2 and WebSphere
products.

:-)

-----Original Message-----From: Steve Orr [mailto:sorr_at_arzoo.com]Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 12:36 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Homepage and Internet services for the DBA

What about a good homepage and freemail for the Oracle DBA?
 Seriously. Go to http://my.oracle.com and you can setup a custom homepage BUT... why no email?!!! Currently my homepage is www.msn.com but I <SPAN

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    class=179030817-21022001>just checked out the Oracle portal. It is

customizable but not nearly as complete as the MSN stuff. When I put the two side-by-side there was no comparison. MSN (and MSNBC) is much more appealing to the eye. It's like the Oracle site doesn't want many graphics so they can brag about performance. Seems Oracle has a lot of content catching up to do. Once upon a time I developed my own homepage but I just don't have time for that. Anyone using http://my.oracle.com as a
homepage and anyone care to give a critique?

Along these lines, what are some other homepage, email, internet features that an Oracle DBA would find useful? Besides links to Metalink, OTN, etc., how about some graphics on the performance of our database servers? (Karma-like stuff.)

Steve
 Orr

      <FONT face=Tahoma 
      size=2>-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com 
      [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Kevin 
      KostyszynSent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:36 
      AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: 
      RE: metalink
      <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
      size=2>I would agree with that as well.  For such a large company I 
      would have to say that they have one of the worst web pages in the history 
      of web pages.  I have seen second year students at The New Jersey 
      Institute of Technology develop better web sites than that.  Do you 
      realize that I had to do a search for metalink website because I couldn't 
      find the link on their website.  Maybe it was like a project of 
      larry's, he offered it up to some 12 year old HTML gurru and let em 
      go?
      
        <FONT face=Tahoma 
        size=2>-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com 
        [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Mohan, RossSent: 
        Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:07 AMTo: Multiple recipients 
        of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: metalink
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>While this pot is stewing, I'll add the 
        following:
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2> 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>What the heck is wrong with Oracle? They have InterMedia nee 
        ConText, 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>and the searchability of their "support" site is embarassingly 
        feeble. 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>Why no "smart searches"? Why no automatic notification when a 
        "Forum"
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>response is logged?  Why no moderated lists..or 
        listservers.....
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2> 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>This stuff ( i.e. "service" ) is cheap, and OWS is making a major 
        mistake by
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>slacking on it. 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2> 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>Much as I know people do not like Microsoft, ask any 
        developer/manager about
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>subscriptions to Microsoft Developer Networks..it used to be near 
        free, now it's
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>about 2 grand yearly, and you get *boxes and boxes* of CDs with 
        tools, docs, 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>new languages, white papers, sample code, amazing 
        stuff....
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2> 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2><shrug>
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2> 
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>I guess if you're one of the big fish in the sea, you get to do 
        what you want and
        <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 
        size=2>let the plankton fall into line......
        <SPAN

class=907030016-21022001> Received on Wed Feb 21 2001 - 23:18:41 CST