Re: Oracle alternatives

On 5/8/05, Radu-Adrian Popescu <radu.popescu_at_aldratech.com> wrote:

> You're in a de facto situation, so to speak, and unwilling to admit that
> the choices made were, well, less than appropriate.=20

I think it's not so much a case of the choices being inappropriate, it's that they were made for a specific situation. It's like the choices you make when building, say, an overshot watermill cane be right for an overshot watermill. Whilst such a construction uses the same basic principles as a gas turbine engine (and the gas turbine can perform the same tasks), to build the gas turbine you need to change a lot of those choices and no matter how much you retrofit the watermill, short of a complete redesign from the ground up, the early design choices will limit the end result.

Stephen

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