Re: Oracle General

In article <k%Tx8.45030$Rw2.3522922_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, you said (and I quote):
> relational, but then, this was 1980. And there was the bit about needing a
> CDC CYBER/170 to run it on, not something you generally find at Staples;
> needing the chilled water cooling and a $2-6 million USD price tag, and at
> times, parts of its hardware being considered controlled strategic items,
> kind of put a dent into the home video game market, with the armed guards
> and all.

and that chilling bit was excellent to keep a case of beer hidden under the false floor. Ahhhh, this brings back memories now! Many a party was held in that room...

>
> "That stuff will never work out. The world needs mainframes for real work."
>
> Isn't it odd that we have come full circle back to the thin client /
> centralized datastore-processing model? I remember mumbling to a Navy buddy
> of mine at an OOW out of the side of my mouth "er, isn't this what we used
> to call 'timesharing'?" 'Shut up, shut up, don't use the "T" word!'

Hehehe! Sssshhhhhhhhhh!
Any wonder how come IBM is so much behind J2EE and three-tier architectures? How many guesses as to exactly which mainframe product architecture does that map to a "T"? ;)

The longer I stay in this industry, the more I'm convinced that nothing is really new...

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Nuno Souto
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