Re: Two sanity checks

Keith Boulton doodled thusly:

>Mind you, that's not changed in the past 15 years!

hehehe! you're not wrong...

>> disks/controllers/partitions consumed the largest section of time of a
>> sysadmin and a DBA at a site I was in about 5 years ago. That was
>Perhaps naively, I would have expected a system to be a great deal more
>stable than that unless it was working on the edge of its performance
>limits.

Narh. Management just kept asking for more and more stuff to be run on that system. Eventually, it ground itself to a halt. Just couldn't cope with anything else. Never received a single upgrade. Management spent nothing with the hardware and ran 6 major apps in it.

So, they decided to fix that "problem ORACLE system".

They bought an absolutely humongous box to run it all as well as SAP. 3 years later they got SAP going, just. The old box was still going. Probably still is.

But I'm sure someone demonstrated to senior management that they made a huge "savings" by not upgrading the old box and "replacing" it instead with a "general purpose" dedicated SAP box...

Oh well, who cares: they have been taken over and disappeared off the map. No surprises, with that sort of management!

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 08:31:58 CST