Re: feature & performance comparison

My first comment is about
"our sole role if we are doing our jobs is to deliver the performance that the business requires from the particular platform that we look after"

Our first role is to provide a solution to a business need. That solution must asnwer the business question in an accurate manner. Answering fast is nice but is not the first thing you have to look at. With the speed of today's hardware, anybody can produce millions of wrong answers per second.
You ask any CEO/XXO :
'do you want THE answer the faster way or do you want any answer as long as it's fast'
i bet they'll want to get the right answer. When you can get the right answer only then
you work on getting it the fastest possible way.

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On another topic,

I will allways find the Java language history interesting...
as it was designed to operate tv remote controls...

Now it's used in a variety of commercial applications,
interfacing DBMS's, etc.

Performance is not that relevant in remote control world...
Let's see how it evolves...
Thanks to the hardware layer that gets faster and faster..
we can now run java.

Another nice attempt to the old 'code once, run everywhere'/abstraction layer.
Let's see what the marker players like M$ will do again
to destroy innovation that they don't fully control.

PM

Niall Litchfield wrote:



> "Robert Dean" <noemail_at_hatespam.spam> wrote in message

> news:3B210F90.75CE07_at_hatespam.spam...

> > This is in the same way that Java was supposed to kill off VB, C++,

> > COBOL, and everything else under the fiery orb at the focus of our

> > solar system, right?

> >

> >

> > Niall Litchfield wrote:

> > >

> > > but c# will kill off java <vvbg>

> Let me put my post another way

>


> Macs are better than PC's

> Unix is better than Windows

> Assembler is better than C

> The future is .net

> The future is the network appliance

> All businesses will be e-business

> EMC is better than veritas

> compaq is better than dell

> black is better than white

> venus is better than mars.

>


> or yet a third way

>


> vvbg = very very big grin.

>


> <rant>

>


> one of the things that really really pisses me off is the tendency of

> techies to attach ourselves religiously to operating

> systems,databases,programming languages,hardware platforms. Our sole role if

> we are doing our jobs is to deliver the performance that the business

> requires from the particular platform that we look after. This means "A tool

> is assessed against the job for which it will be put to use, and not on a

> feature comparison with its competitors". {Niall's first law} and also

> "every tool has its place, so don't slag it off in case you need support for

> it sometime" {Niall's corollary}.

>


> </rant>

>


> therefore as I said in my somewhat more serious post (and to return somewhat

> surprisingly to the topic) . assess both db2 and oracle against the task in

> hand.

>


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>


> Niall Litchfield

> Oracle DBA

> Audit Commission UK