Re: Oracle Linux/Virtualization Software

joel garry wrote:
> On Nov 29, 8:36 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> hpuxrac wrote:
>>> On Nov 28, 5:18 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>>> hpuxrac wrote:
>>>>> Oracle claims their VM is 3 times as fast as anything else.  Sounds
>>>>> pretty fishy to many of us.
>>> It don't take a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing ...
>> Good lyric.
>> Lousy way to evaluate software.

I'm not counseling blind acceptance. I'm not advising anyone to take anything at face value. Isn't it Tom Kyte who has advised over and over again the importance of not accepting claims made by self-anointed experts?

What is at issue here is the difference between scepticism (healthy) and cynicism (attitude). I am not saying Oracle is correct and I'm not saying Oracle is incorrect. Because I haven't tested the claim in my lab and don't know of any reputable independent source that has.

What I object to is this cynical repudiation of a claim based solely on the person's attitude of unblemished negativity. There isn't one person here that has weighed in with a value judgment that any single data point, even a poorly created one, that supports their statement.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
Oracle Ace Director & Instructor
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org