We need to stop being negative about additional and un-needed stuff in
our systems. We must be joyful and gay, we must embrace everything new,
and be ecstatic about ever higher release numbers.
Otherwise, we're seen as dreadfully boring spoil-sports, and nobody will
want to play with us. Instead, they will play with the consultants and
companies that don't have a care in the world, and just keep encouraging
customers to buy more and more. What a happy message.
The title of my next musical, I think, shall be: "We're the conSultans
of Swing".
We
Mogens
Niall Litchfield wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2004 16:07:51 +0200, Mogens N=F8rgaard <mln_at_miracleas.dk> wr=
> ote:
>
>>PS: Oh, and do not ever create a system without DataGuard... "
>
>
> Now maybe the time to confess that as I have no original ideas at all
> - I stole the 'You probably don't need...' for a presentation on how
> to configure good old standby.
> =20
>
>>It's my experience that this very, very positive message has a much
>>stronger impact on my listeners than the rather negative "You ....
>>Don't..." message.
>
>
> I'm not sure about this. Having gone to the trouble of calling my
> presentation 'You probably don't need DataGuard' (Central thesis 'cos
> it'll cost you 20 grand a processor if you have to buy EE and doesn't
> gain you anything much apart from version 1.2 of a somewhat new
> product) and having an abstract stating "This will look , using an
> actual case study, at DR options for Oracle systems that don't require
> the expense and overhead of Data Guard, OEM and Oracle Enterprise
> Edition. " I get the following feedback
>
> "I expected this presentation to be about DataGuard itself, rather than
> about Not using DataGuard."
>
> and=20
>
> " I came to this SIG specifically becuase this
> presentation was on the agenda, because we are about to start using
> DataGuard and I hoped this presentation would give me a warts-and-all
> picture of its use. It didn't, which I found somewhat disappointing."
>
> So I think in future presentations given on odd numbered days should
> be called 'Sean' and presentations given on even numbered days should
> be called 'Lucy'.
>
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
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