Re: [Nolug] call for help: white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux, Unix & Oracle

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 06:11, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 12:52 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 18:39, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 April 2003 08:53 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > > > > > Is Oracle really as DBA-intensive as I've heard?
[snip]
> Set up the way I want them includes tuning. Applications I write get
> tuned at the database design and PL/SQL level, which is why they
> fly. Vendors who suck at database design and port apps from Access

But databases are dynamic, even if no new applications come on-
line, and interactive queries are disallowed.

[snip]
> SQL server is deeply tied to Windows, and I'm sure that Micros~1
> says that it's helpful, but SQL server runs only on Windows. Oracle
> runs well on dozens of platforms. Apache also runs on many platforms,
> including Windows. I don't see tying the application to the OS as
> an advantage, but rather a disadvantage in that updates to the OS
> break applications. Sound familiar?

No, at least with Rdb & VMS. Apps built against VAX Rdb 3.0 (from the
late 1980s) will still run on VAXes running v7.3 and Rdb 7.1.

Then again, the Rdb engineers work a short walk through the woods from
the VMS engineers, and they understand the needs of enterprises. And
can as the VMS engineers to implement special features, and can modify
Rdb to take advantage of new features of Rdb.

"Backward compatible, but forward looking."

The benefits of the RDBMS knowing about the OS is that it's more
efficient than a portable RDBMS that needs to maintain optimisations
for every platform it runs on.

Note, though, that just because "tying" is good, doesn't mean that
MSFT does a good job at it...

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