Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

Joel Garry wrote:
> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1072810464.715634_at_yasure>...
>
> Saying "just buy good software" is ridiculous, there simply isn't any
> such thing. Saying "write it yourself, look at Amazon" is a little
> more subtly ridiculous, as it ignores the timing of the dotcom madness
> in relation to their capital investment needs. Software houses with a
> small staff can come up with some excellent stuff, but the scale is
> all wrong (or even if it can scale, there is no efficient mechanism to
> sell it to decision makers). The only answer is to explicitly
> recognize that the length of software life cycles requires long term
> stable software to base applications upon. This is in conflict with
> the reality of quarterly-biased financial results in the capital
> markets.
>
> Put another way, Larry is better off hacking up Peoplesoft than taking
> responsibility for bad Forms, Reports and Apps.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.01/internet.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

If you are talking about recreating an Enterprise sized accounting or distribution system I agree. The investment is huge. But there are a lot of places other than Amazon that have done well too. Heard any complaints from Visa? Mastercard? American Express? New York Stock Exchange? Their apps are not COTS.

But the truth is that the vast majority of apps are not huge projects. Most could be written from scratch by a team of a half-dozen to a dozen really competent developers in 6-12 months.

The problem is that managment has yet to figure out how to make 10 guys at $200,000/yr look more appealing than 100 guys at $20,000/yr. So they keep ending up with trash.

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