Re: Oracle Personal Edition Sucks!

"ianal Vista" <ianal_vista_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Xns97ADDFE8FA98Eianalvistahotmailcom_at_70.169.32.36...
> "Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in
> news:KAC2g.4831$Lm5.2557_at_newssvr12.news.prodigy.com:
>
>>
>> <xg_at_oraclexg.com> wrote in message
>> news:1145515759.282256.260060_at_u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
>>> http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/08/28/23563.aspx
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Allright, so I installed Oracle personal edition on my desktop. Here
>>> are my peeves against oracle -
>>>
>>> a) First of all, the installation was in 3 cd's equivalent - so much
>>> for microsoft being bloatware.
>>> b) When my PC boots up, I have Oracle's process taking up 96 MB of
>>> memory compared to SQL Server's under 10MB, the memory usage keeps
>>> going up exponentially as I use either product.
>>> c) Here's my biggest problem - when I wanted to uninstall Oracle, it
>>> isn't in add/remove programs like all other friendly citizens of the
>>> computer world, instead it has it's own crappy java based installer,
>>> and instead of uninstall they prefer to call it "Deinstall", and
>>> what's worse in the treeview it shows me, when I check an item to be
>>> unistalled, the zillions of items under it, are still unchecked - are
>>> they going to be uninstalled or will they be not? It takes a minimum
>>> of 3-4 hours to individually check everything there is.
>>> d) When the frickin' "de"-installation is complete, the installer
>>> remains on the system. But it's group dissappears from my start menu
>>> or add/remove programs or everywhere. Is there spyware in that?
>>> e) Talk about all the JUNK that Oracle installed in the first place,
>>> look at your registry before and after Oracle got done trading the
>>> soul of your poor PC, it adds many megabytes of information to the
>>> registry .. what in the world !!!!
>>>
>>> Larry Ellison IMHO has only one business idea - "Defeat bill gates
>>> and trap every programmer in matrix like pods powering oracle
>>> databases". WHAT THE HECK !! Time he matured up a bit.
>>>
>>
>> Yup, Oracle may have gotten too carried away with the Java stuff. They
>> are using it where ever possible. JVM is a problematic, memory
>
> such as exactly where?
> "problematic"? such as where & demonstrated by which metrics?
>
>> robbing, slow beast we all have to put up with.
>
> Based upon which reproducable and measurable metrics compared to what?

I am not sure where your fixation on metrics is coming from. Some experience will help. Received on Sun Apr 23 2006 - 09:06:56 CDT