RE: Is it just me

  • From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:03:33 -0400

I'm guessing that was not just good planning to avoid drunk pilots on New
Year's Day.....

... 600 sounds kinda high, even for the Air Force's mothball airport.

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carel-Jan Engel
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:03 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Is it just me



> If you ever saw a system that was write-mostly over the long term, then
> there's data going in that's never coming out. You'd have to wonder why
> someone would pay money to store things that are never retrieved.>>

I used to work for a company that sold airport information systems. At a
Swedish airport, they had a year with 600 more arriving aircraft than
deprtures. They might still be looking for the aircraft wreckage.....

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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