Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:54:39 -0800, sal wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It’s curious but I can’t find any word about Grid in
> documentation of just appeared 10g OAS. Probably, the same situation
> will be with upcoming 10g database.
> May I make conclusion that Oracle 10g Grid is only marketing hype ? I
> think that Oracle’s Grid means a big RAC (former OPS).

Oracle 10g is delayed for several reasons and the most important ones are that the product is buggy and that oraclites and their buddies need large enough advantage so that they can start selling their consulting skills as soon as the product is out, in contrast to other, less privileged, people who will have to wait. It's actually a brazen scheme to make more money from the consulting at the expense of those of us who have been spreading the word so far. That wouldn't be the first or the most spectacular attempt by oracle to screw up (I'm not a native English speaker, so I beg you pardon for my French) its own customers. One only needs to think of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems. Why would they be any nicer or more fair to the rest of us? I can only advise you to switch to DB2, which is what I fully intend to do. As for oracle 10g, you can expect some more marketing buzzwords, some white papers on OTN or articles which will tell you that 10g is the best thing since the sliced bread. You'll see 10g when the books are written, presentations are made and "gurus" and "masters" have large enough advantage that the rest of us cannot compete. If you're not blessed by good connections with Oracle, you'll get @#$$%. The product will not be any less buggy, the coding is done elsewhere, where the technological knowledge is equivalent to the one in the US but the technological discipline is not, which means that the quality of the code itself will necessarily deteriorate. That means more bugs and less reliable code. In order to implement those wonderful new features, they'd like you to pay for the training and consulting and not learn them yourself. That is why the software is not out and that is why the people who are testing it have signed non-disclosure agreements with Oracle. If you don't have to use oracle, then don't. I believe that PostgresSQL, MySQL and DB/2 can provide more then adequate replacement. Oracle is becoming more and more like DEC. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that they'll go the same way. I experienced that myself, because I was, at one time, a VMS tuning specialist, and was teaching courses on internals of VMS. I advised my employer to buy new, MIPS R4000 based DECSystem machines with Ultrix. When the DEC came out with Alpha, approximately a year after that, and told us that no trade in policy will be instituted, that Ultrix will not be supported any longer and that we can, essentially, forget about $150,000 that we paid for DECSystem 5500, I had to look for another job. Needless to say, I don't ever want to use anything from DEC. DEC deserved what has happened to them. So will Oracle. Abandon the ship while you can. Handling of the 10g release proves beyond reasonable doubt that they've lost it.

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