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From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:59:17 -0700
Message-ID: <1184648355.637150@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


Bob Jones wrote:

> Not to mention mission-critical systems that require near 100% uptime.

No one is more sensitive to that than Amazon.com.

Want to guess what they're running on their production systems?

How about the line of business applications at every mobile phone company in the region: AT&T, T-Mobile, AllTel, Verizon, ClearWire?

How about the line of business applications at banks like Washington Mutual; one of the largest in the US?

Why is it some people here are getting their knickers in a twist and yet these large organizations, with serious 7x24x365 requirements, are not dropping like flies?

And no it is not that they are lucky. They aren't buying it, and they are not upgrading to 10gR2 because they are being bullied by some guy with a $200 haircut. Nor would their CTO's risk their careers if the systems were failing.

When you look around and ships aren't falling off the edge of the earth you conclude that your premise that the earth is flat is wrong. When you look around and see the largest most important organizations on the planet running their line-of-business applications on 10g you should conclude that they too are not falling off the edge of the earth.

Of course there are bugs. There are bugs in everything. The question is whether there are documented workarounds.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon Jul 16 2007 - 23:59:17 CDT

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