Re: new DirectX Oracle online monitor

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:<406459cb$0$3303$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> "Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message
> news:1a75df45.0403250107.4237eac2_at_posting.google.com...
> > lauferb_at_adit-tec.com (Boaz Laufer) wrote
> >
> > > I'd like to invite you to my site to try my new DirectX based oracle
> online monitor.
> > > The name is 'SGAgent'.
> >
> > DirectX? Then why does it not look like a 1st person shooter that
> > allows you to walk around inside the virtual world of an Oracle
> > instance?
> >
> > Where the hell is the BFG (Big Friggen Gun) that you can use to shoot
> > sessions (alter system kill session).
> >
> > Nah.. not interested. Too many grapgics. Not enough substance. IMO. I
> > have yet to see something GUI-like that gives me what my Unix/Linux
> > command line ora-ps shell script does. No fancy graphics. Just the
> > relevant and applicable facts ma'm. To go.
>
> http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
>
> :(

Web site seems to say it hasn't been upgraded since the 2.0 linux kernel. And no hp-ux! :(

That's the problem with open source, things peter out due to lack of interest, 5 years after it's too cool on /. .

Too bad, my customer with the Klingon Beer bottle in his office might go for it, though he might be more partial to Medieval Konquest (or whatever it is called) style battles with the biods...

jg

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