Re: The demise of the Oracle professional?

I have to disagree with the last point.
"CPU grunt" only addresses scalability
in the complete absence of contention.

To date, I haven't seen many "new tech"
languages, utilities, paradigms, etc. which consider the possibility that they may
introduce high levels of contention. One of the main problems has always been "we've got the CPU to waste to make things easier for ... (insert "programmer", "user", or other preferred sales target).

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Nuno Souto wrote in message
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>In article <ae590c$429gr$1_at_ID-87429.news.dfncis.de>, you said (and I

quote):


>>

>> As I said, J2EE can be applied wherever there is a need for

>> scalability.

>

>Sure.  So can more CPU grunt.

>