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Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 17 Dec 2003 16:44:07 -0800
Message-ID: <91884734.0312171644.4af7fc8c@posting.google.com>


wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au (Noons) wrote in message news:<73e20c6c.0312151635.6d0b4da5_at_posting.google.com>...
> joel-garry_at_home.com (Joel Garry) wrote in message news:<91884734.0312151158.4372b5c4_at_posting.google.com>...
>
> > I think he has a point about DEC. IMO DEC was successful because it
> > was able to skim off those customers from Iron Big Mama that could run
> > their apps on minicomputers - and it died when it couldn't see that
> > micros would do the same thing to it.
>
>
> Not just that. They also had one of the more arrogant corporate
> cultures I've ever seen. So many times I argued technical points
> with DEC's techos, only to be told to piss off because they were
> "DEC experts" therefore they "knew". We can see where their expertise
> landed them nowadays...

A lot landed on their feet. Some became enamoured with Macs, some became Oracle indies (or maybe Oracle undies in your part of the world :-) , some became renowned authors, some became experts in heterogenous systems, some retired to quiet lives in the boonies... very few were actually stupid. As far as arrogance, I think the top-down Oracle culture has always had DEC beat.

> I know quite a few people out there who cheered when DEC went under,
> mostly fed-up with their over the nose attitudes.

I didn't. I saw it as a triumph of suits and kiddies.

>
> > Is the same thing going to
> > happen with load distribution? Quite possibly, and it might be a big
> > mistake to bet the farm on a couple of flying pigs. Big Iron is still
> > around, after all.
> >
>
> Exactly. That is a point that people keep forgetting. Big Iron
> IS AROUND. And they are not asleep. Far from it. The problem is that
> before, there was healthy competition in that market. Nowadays, it's
> a monopoly. And a foul smelling one at that...

Oh come on, read your IBM history, the US gummint came down harder on IBM than anyone who wasn't an enemy since the oil trusts. Changed their whole business model. Any "healthy competition" was forced. So now we have a bunch of little monopolies, also known as patents. Guess who has the most of those?

jg

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