Re: Oracle on NT...Why Not?

In article <4i1l7g$jqf_at_tin.monsanto.com> mecoru_at_ccmail.monsanto.com (Michael E Corum) writes:
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>I think it is interesting to see the UNIX people defend there turf. There are two types of people in computing:
>Those who get married to a technology and stick with it to the bitter end (and the end is bitter), and those who
>have flexibility to change as technology changes. The second group will sometimes run into minor trouble because
>they might move too quickly but they will never have a "bitter end".

I felt bad for those in the second group who had to walk into Oracle user group meetings and say "I use <some Oracle product> on <some cutting edge technology like the Mac> and was wondering if anyone has gotten <some Oracle product> to work," to be met by uncomfortable laughter and words of gentle pity.

I'm plenty flexible, but I think people are too quick to throw out the working technology before it's end. I lamented it in RSTS, I'll lament it with unix.

Come on, people, there's plenty of work for us to do without making more unnecessary work. Unix hasn't even peaked yet, NT is barely on the upward curve. Take a graduate level marketing class, learn about S-curves, realize the greatest profitability is with mature (or "obsolete") products. Leave the bleeding edge to the young who think they are not hemophiliacs.

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>By the way, I still support using UNIX for the very high-end. Five years ago I still supported using IBM mainframes
>for the very high end over UNIX. It's just a matter of time before NT platforms are able to handle the very high-end.
>

That's more reasonable. There is still a beyond-unix business market. Which of the two types does that make you?

>Flames will be ignored.

Just observing.

jg

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>Mike Corum
>Technical Consulting Team
>Centers of Technical Excellence
>Monsanto Co
>(All opinions my own and have nothing to do with the company I work at)
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