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"Spencer" <spencerp_at_swbell.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> what exactly did you mean by the phrase
> 'good for understanding the "other side" ' ?
> what "other side" ?
Pre-1: I was asked directly. So I couldn't keep quiet.
Pre-2: This thread is much too deep. I think it is OE, which has problems posting at the correct level. So this answer is not inserted at the right spot.
In this thread two groups of people could be seen:
[1] Almost exclusively represented by me, somebody who only uses MS Windows as his prime plattform. Not only programs written by MS, but only programs written for the MS Windows plattform.
[2] My own thoughts, please don't kill if I am wrong. On the other hand there are many Oracle DBAs. Probably they use several plattforms, but the Oracle database is a common factor.
One thing which is important for me, might be completely unimportant for a DBA. For example I don't like the Oracle GUI. It is so much different from a standard Windows GUI. Even the most basic elements are missing (keyboard interface, how to move the focus between radio buttons, how to drop down a combo box, ESC won't work, ...). I think it is bad if you have two applications on the same screen, and one behaves differently from the other. An Oracle DBA obviously does not feel this way. Probably he won't use the Windows plattform at all. But if he did, he prefered that the Oracle GUI was the same on Windows as it is on UNIX.
These are two completely different ways to look at the Oracle software. Both sides are are correct. And probably no one can convice the other.
Michael G. Schneider Received on Sun Oct 28 2001 - 04:13:54 CST