Re: Orbitz dumps RAC for better reliability
From: Keith <nospam_at_nospam.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:16:40 -0400
Message-ID: <vhf46a464qn62_at_news.supernews.com>
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> Contradiction in terms?
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> What else? And look, it's not even clustered!
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> Look, this crap is based on Stonebraker's Ingres.
> Like the original, these idiots concentrated on
> "functionality" instead of making sure they had a
> solid data management engine.
> Like the original, it loses data at the drop of a hat.
> Like the original, if a layer of serious data management
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> He can run fsync until the cows come home. The problem
> is and has always been the total wanton disregard for
> data security from the Stonebraker mob. They don't
> have a SINGLE person with data management experience
> ANYWHERE in their group! All a bunch of academics
> with pretentious titles and even bigger egos, that's all.
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> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Fri Jul 18 2003 - 08:16:40 CEST
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:16:40 -0400
Message-ID: <vhf46a464qn62_at_news.supernews.com>
[Quoted] [Quoted] Stonebraker's original contribution is far different from today's [Quoted] PostgreSQL. Also it is based on postgres not Ingres. Ingres goes back to earlier work. Please research before you post.
[Quoted] [Quoted] Note: good designs comes often come from academia or research [Quoted] [Quoted] institutions like Bell Labs. Relational Data Management came from an [Quoted] academic and researcher, E.F. Codd. Larry and his cohorts simple ripped off the research paper.
[Quoted] [Quoted] In my opinion, Oracle today is simply an organization of Marketeers and salespeople.
Nuno Souto wrote:
> Orville <hawaiian_at_bacon.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93BBCFD8D2F68hawaiianbaconcom@216.148.227.77>...
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>>Truth in advertising.
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> Contradiction in terms?
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>>Customer testimonials: >> "100% of the data was gone!"
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>>100% of the data was gone! From the shell if you went >>select * from company, postgres reports 0 tuples! (but returns
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> Look, this crap is based on Stonebraker's Ingres.
> Like the original, these idiots concentrated on
> "functionality" instead of making sure they had a
> solid data management engine.
> Like the original, it loses data at the drop of a hat.
> Like the original, if a layer of serious data management
> is added the performance goes out the window.
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>>Please not I was running fsync off for this database.
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> He can run fsync until the cows come home. The problem
> is and has always been the total wanton disregard for
> data security from the Stonebraker mob. They don't
> have a SINGLE person with data management experience
> ANYWHERE in their group! All a bunch of academics
> with pretentious titles and even bigger egos, that's all.
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> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Fri Jul 18 2003 - 08:16:40 CEST