Re: Oracle on Linux - was [LUG] The _real_ Andrew Pearce

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 14:40, Simon Waters wrote:
> John Daragon wrote:
> > My trouble is that I thought I understood Oracle (having installed 7 on
> > AIX 3.2...) but I don't.  And they've gone all java and objecty on me,
> > too.
>
> The Java installer was a version 8 thing.
>
> I was in the situation of needing a GUI (to point DISPLAY a to keep
> Java's graphics happy whist the ASCII instaler ran) on a big HP servers
> which only had an HP console to install - yuck.

Hee hee hee hee...

> Sorry Oracle 8.1 was well into bloatware territory, minimal install
> footprint of 1.3GB and even then it didn't include stuff that the
> startup scripts were written to expect.
>
> Somewhere in there is a really good, fast, small database waiting to
> come out - but I think Oracle lost the plot.

Yup - nothing about this database that wouldn't be improved by the application 
of 155 grains of copper-coated lead travelling somewhat above the speed of 
sound. But perhaps I'm being a little grouchy.

> > (Never trust a language that doesn't have an unsigned integer)
>
> Never trust a program written in a language without strong type checking ;)

And Operator Overload. What were they *on* when they thought that up ?

jd
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