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Homepage and Internet services for the DBA

From: Steve Orr <sorr_at_arzoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:07:15 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002B9D27.20010221093601@fatcity.com>

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face=Arial>What about a good homepage and freemail for the Oracle DBA? Seriously. Go to <FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://my.oracle.com and you can setup a custom homepage BUT... why no email?!!! Currently my homepage is <A href="http://www.msn.com/">www.msn.com<FONT size=2> but I want to
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class=179030817-21022001>just checked out the Oracle portal. It is customizable but not nearly as complete as the M<SPAN class=179030817-21022001>SN 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 <A
href="http://my.oracle.com/">http://my.oracle.com as a homepage and anyone care to give a critique?
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face=Arial>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.)
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Steve
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  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
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  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?   

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    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
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    size=2>While this pot is stewing, I'll add the following:

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    size=2>What the heck is wrong with Oracle? They have InterMedia nee ConText,     

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    size=2>and the searchability of their "support" site is embarassingly     feeble.
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    size=2>Why no "smart searches"? Why no automatic notification when a     "Forum"
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    size=2>response is logged?  Why no moderated lists..or     listservers.....
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    size=2>This stuff ( i.e. "service" ) is cheap, and OWS is making a major     mistake by
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    size=2>slacking on it.
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    size=2>Much as I know people do not like Microsoft, ask any     developer/manager about
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    size=2>subscriptions to Microsoft Developer Networks..it used to be near     free, now it's
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    size=2>about 2 grand yearly, and you get *boxes and boxes* of CDs with     tools, docs,
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    size=2>new languages, white papers, sample code, amazing     stuff....
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    I
    guess if you're one of the big fish in the sea, you get to do what you want     and
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    size=2>let the plankton fall into line......
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class=907030016-21022001>  Received on Thu Feb 22 2001 - 00:07:15 CST

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