RE: Uncle Larry, wake up!!!

While I agree that the older machines and 3GL technologies *ran* faster, it took 8 times longer to develop a simple report. a thousand lines of cobol code to produce a simple list. and wait for a change request. another week to figure out what the other programmer did, make a minor change, test it and return it to the user. all the while, they are scratching their head saying "what the frig is taking so long?".

No way. we are in a much better position now.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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OH, ANCIENT History!!

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Nope, we would be using IMS and/or CICS & DL/I. On the beginning of my career, when I was a junior programmer using completely outdated, badly overused language (COBOL, for short) an ancient IBM 3084 with only 32M RAM
was able to service 800+ users, as long as there weren't too many TSO users. I'd hate to explain what CICS, MVS and TSO are (or were), but those things were way more
optimal and way faster then any other database I've ever seen, and that was happenening in the year 1986. At the end of 1986, I was reassigned to check out that
wonderful new box with OS that has held so much promise....VAX 3900 with VMS 4.6.
Does anybody still remember the NULL.COM and NULL process? On 11/07/2003 01:44:35 PM, Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> yes, but as you all know by now ( or should know ), having the best
> technology does not make you a market leader.
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> MySQL will walk all over PostgreSQL, regardless of the superiority of the
> latter.
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> Otherwise, we would all be using RDB, wouldn't we?
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> Jared
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> "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
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> Let's not forget PostgreSQL, arguably more "enterprise-ready" than MySQL,
> and now with clustering on Linux:
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> http://www.open-mag.com/0182533982.shtml
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> Rich
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> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> rjesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
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> Can I say "I told you so!" now? ;)
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> The last statements in the article are really telling:
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> Yet, despite MySQL's progress in the market, "we haven't
> found very much MySQL out there," says Microsoft's Rizzo.
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> "That's the best news I could have," retorts Mickos, MYSql
> AB. "As long as Microsoft is in denial, we're fine."
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> Could we add Uncle Larry to the list of those in denial??
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> MYSQL BREAKS INTO THE DATA CENTER
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> MySQL is changing the nature of the database market with a powerful
> combination of low cost and high performance.
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http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801,8590
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