Re: Foreign key in Oracle Sql

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:53:52 -0800
Message-ID: <41eed6e5$1_1@127.0.0.1>

-CELKO- wrote:

>>>But if the question is put to the marketplace ... which is more

>
> important ... portability or scalability and performance. Those that
> vote in dollars are not voting for portability. The day they do ...
> the vendors will start caring about it. <<
>
> But they are voting for it. Portability is one of the promises of Open
> Source. And just look at how scared of Open Source software the big
> guys are becoming. Microsoft's dirty tricks to keep LINUX out of
> government computing here and overseas, etc. are a testimonal. A few
> weeks ago, CMU published the bug rates for Windows versus LINUX --
> about three orders of magnitude in favor of LINUX.

No one I am aware of has made a decision to favor Linux over Windows due to portability. Total cost of ownership? Absolutely. Some level of insullation from every 16 year old on the planet that can write some malicious code? You betcha. Some protection from spyware and other malevalent code? Unhuh. But portability? What am I going to do with an application built on Linux? Port it to AIX? Solaris? HP/UX? VMS? Hardly. If I care about portability I am writing Java and buying my database from a company that supports every major operating system and platform.

But portability isn't killing Windows: It is corporate greed. Microsoft's willingness to put its own profitability ahead of a conscientious effort to make a good product. I have close friends that work there. Their loyalty extends as far as their next paycheck. Their respect for what they are doing not even that far.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Wed Jan 19 2005 - 15:53:52 CST