Re: oracle database and mac os x for intel

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:10:44 -0800
Message-ID: <1137107442.730046@jetspin.drizzle.com>

Joel Garry wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>

>>Every decision we make in IT has to be weighed against an obsolescence
>>measured in months to a few years. What is the best option yesterday is
>>not the best option today. And likely won't be the best option in a
>>year. Does that mean we should "stay the course" forever?

>
>
> I for one hope that the next big paradigm shift gets rid of this
> obsolescence rate. If something is going to be a gridlike utility it
> should be like a Roman aqueduct, useable for millenia even if the
> empire falls.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> "Expert - a former drip under pressure." - Bryan Thomas

I would agree except for two factors that will make such a dream impossible.

Technology is still advancing at too fast a rate and no one wants their competitor to have something they don't have.
For every CEO like Larry Ellison there is a Board of Directors that can fire them and a huge number of stock holders to whom they owe a fiduciary duty to keep the stock price as high as possible. High stock prices are not result from selling something once in a decade.

Embrace change. ;-)

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
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damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Thu Jan 12 2006 - 17:10:44 CST