RE: Disadvantages of Remote Servers

Valerie,

    It depends on who you are, how remote is remote and the OS you are using. I guess that if you are a production DBA, the farther away from development the better. If you are a developer, you may be blocked by those mundane IT problems which spice our otherwise so dull lives, ie wrong version of that, cannot access this, and so on. Either you have the password, or you have to ask another guy to fix things for you. And experience proves that the farther away the guy, the longest it takes, especially if you have never met him. Can be frustrating.   'Remoteness' can also be a problem. I have installed from a Paris, France, office a database in Tokyo, Japan. 'Ping' takes 300 ms, and echo is slow (forget about anything but telnet, but anyway I consider graphical environments as a nice way to open multiple telnet sessions and that's all). Certainly cheaper than flight+hotel, but if it's OK for something you do once, you can't work on a regular basis in such conditions.   And finally the OS. Anything starting with W is a pain to work with in a remote environment.

My EUR 0.02

SF

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: "WEBBER, VALERIE" <Vwebber_at_Valspar.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>Sent: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 06:29:25
>
>What are the disadvantages to managing/deploying
>applications with a remote
>iAS server? Are there significant reason to try to
>have it local to the
>development?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Valerie
>
>Valerie H. Webber
> Valspar Corporation
> 7930 W. Kenton Circle
> Huntersville, NC 28078
> 800-241-4568 ext. 6313
>

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