Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

"Hans Forbrich" <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote in message news:3FF3659E.DA060A7E_at_yahoo.net...

> 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.)

ROFL! Like the bit about "being on par"! How very true.

Still, I worked at a site where they ONLY bought third-party stuff developed on, for and using Microslop software, because it (Microslop) was the site "standard". None EVER worked, but what was important was to not violate the standard.

I still cringe every time I hear about these "site standards". A few years ago they were all the rage, when Win95 took hold.

What most of these people did not realize is that industry standards are decided by industry specific groups of people, chosen so that there is no such thing as a single company taking over a standard.

The use of the term "industry standard" to define use of Microslop software is a media invention that never had any technical standing. Yet, guess which one stuck with the dimwit management responsible for the above state of affairs?

A "site standard" for software source is not a standard, it's a monopoly.

> 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.

Like, something that could actually cope with a load? :D

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Nuno Souto
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