Re: Oracle Right or Wrong

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: 8 Oct 2002 17:26:55 -0500
Message-ID: <Xns92A1A8307DD55pingottpingottbah@209.189.89.243>

Karsten Farell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com> wrote in news:qoIo9.1651$pC7.197395770_at_newssvr13.news.prodigy.com:

> feathers of some irate Oracle customer who spent big bucks to buy
> Oracle and now was sick and tired of installing daily patches
> because they happened to be on an SGI or running IBM MVS or
> hundreds of other "supported" platforms).

SGI/IRIX didn't have daily patches. The Oracle port on SGI is very neat because it can issue I/Os as large as 4MB. You can imagine the DSS benchmarks that were beat using the IRIX/Oracle combination.

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Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 17:26:55 CDT