DA Morgan wrote:
>> This is just another version of the Java developer's mantra about
>> platform independence that Tom Kyte has been trying to kill for quite
>> some time.
>>
>> Platform independence is a direct route to mediocrity or worse.
>>
>> Trying to run Oracle databases successfully while ignoring Oracle
>> best practices is similarly an exercise in masochism.
>
> I meant to say "DATABASE" independence.
the argument still holds for platform independence in my view, you
almost always are trying to solve a specific problem, for a specific
customer (or your own business) in a specific environment. Platform (or
database) independence merely solves a software vendor's problem of how
to sell a generic product to as many people as possible.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info/services/
Received on Sun Oct 15 2006 - 07:55:38 CDT
