Re: Rac on Linux

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:15:19 -0700
Message-ID: <1160687715.285181@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Fuzzy wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:

>> On 2006-09-13, HansF <Fuzzy.Greybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:18:54 -0700, hpuxrac wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Do you like your database vendor to also provide your file systems?

 >

>> Your are COMPLETELY dependent on Oracle for everything.

>
> As if you aren't anyway.

This is just another version of the Java developer's mantra about platform independence that Tom Kyte has been trying to kill for quite some time.

Platform independence is a direct route to mediocrity or worse.

Trying to run Oracle databases successfully while ignoring Oracle best practices is similarly an exercise in masochism.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Thu Oct 12 2006 - 16:15:19 CDT