Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

Hans Forbrich wrote:
> A customer of mine a few years ago whined about the cost of Oracle and
> Oracle-competent consultants. Stated flatly to me that he could get
> people who handled Microsoft products at 1/10th the cost of Oracle
> people. He closed with the statement "That way I could have 9 out of 10
> projects fail and still be on par." (I had to ask why he plans on
> failure.)
>
> Recently his successor admitted that they'd had 10 out of 10 projects
> fail. In every case the prototype looked great; the developers could
> never handle the transition from demo code to something robust.

I'm not surprised. Ten mediocre people are not more capable than one really smart person.

I can't wait until I get a classroom full of managers. We will see if 30 people that know a little of bit SQL can write a stored procedure. ;-)

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