RE: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

  • From: "Kevin Closson" <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:41:42 -0700

 itch
         
        That might be. However I used to work for a mainframe company
that thought this business of buying your hardware (and generic O.S.
a.k.a. Unix) from one vendor and your database from another was just a
passing fad. Those customers will soon see the error of their ways and
return. 
           Well, the mainframe company is just a historical entry in
Wikipedia. Eventually those scruffy upstarts got that Unix thing to be
passably reliable.


...this is a GREAT thread. I see it differently having been in the
trenches
of the company that brought SMPs (Sequent) up to par and surpassed minis

(Unix was the demise of VMS not mainframes).  Remember, the mainframe
and 
mini guys were telling Sequent and Pyramid Technologies that SMPs would
never 
scale. Just because their predictions turned out wrong doesn't mean
mainframes 
have no place. Only Oracle Corp can justify absolutist views. The rest
of us 
should be glad that there are still some choices we can make. Believe
me, if 
human lives are on the line, you'd have to be pretty drunk on Oracle
marketing 
literature to choose RAC with ASM over a zSeries mainframe running
whatever.  

Linux is in dire need of some straightening out. The anarchist "free or
die"
thing is a real problem. Linux is good for Larry because it allows him
to
usurp a little more control. IBM and HP are at least a little bit in
control
when you choose AIX or HPUX, but Linux puts Larry in control. If there
is
anything to fear it is Oracle one-stop-shopping.

Opinions are free.

Yes, server volumes are now swayed to Win/Lin and Unix is waning.
So is LU6.2, SNA and OS400 and eventually GCOS.

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