Re: views on views on views
- From: Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ltiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, jkstill@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:17:37 -0700 (PDT)
"The thought that anything other than a really small app can easily
be made to run on another database or moving the app from Java
to .Net or whatever, just create more work and sub-par applications."
You need a few extra examples for some of these doubters? I'm sure any number
of us have multi-platform supported applications that we can easily use as
examples of why to be platform centric in your development practices.
Yes, the vendor may get more sales, but how often does he lose a customer in
the end due to a product he can't adequately support, can't supply updates to
all the different supported platforms, etc.?
As a "multi-platform" DBA, I am tired of having to "translate" to support folks
and vendor's developers why a solid choice in one database platform was not a
wise move in another...
Kellyn
--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: views on views on views
To: ltiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 4:49 PM
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Lyndon Tiu <ltiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jared Still wrote:
Personally, I like the part where dependency on Java is removed.
Exactly, as I mentioned in a previous email of where your center of the
universe is.
If the database is the center of the universe for you, you'd also want your
database to be NOT dependent on the application. So that tomorrow, you can
switch to .Net or whatever else and run away with it.
Again, "center of the universe" has nothing to do with it.
My comment was a subtly (too subtle) humorous remark aimed
at the trouble that Java causes in IT shops. It causes a lot of it.
Mostly due to programming errors I believe.
This whole idea of 'transportability' is completely the wrong way
to go about designing anything.
Use the features of the tools you are using.
The thought that anything other than a really small app can easily
be made to run on another database or moving the app from Java
to .Net or whatever, just create more work and sub-par applications.
Jared
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