RE: Is it just me

From: Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:03:33 -0400
Message-ID: <KNEIIDHFLNJDHOOCFCDKAEBFFDAA.mwf@rsiz.com>

I'm guessing that was not just good planning to avoid drunk pilots on New Year's Day.....

... 600 sounds kinda high, even for the Air Force's mothball airport.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Carel-Jan Engel Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:03 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Is it just me

> If you ever saw a system that was write-mostly over the long term, then
> there's data going in that's never coming out. You'd have to wonder why
> someone would pay money to store things that are never retrieved.>>

I used to work for a company that sold airport information systems. At a Swedish airport, they had a year with 600 more arriving aircraft than deprtures. They might still be looking for the aircraft wreckage.....

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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