That should have read "Oracle's 'Unbreakable' marketing strategy"
telling the world that Oracle is 'Unbreakable.'
Billy Verreynne wrote:
> Keith <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
>
>
>>So much for the 'Unbreakable' strategy..
>
>
> Duh?
>
> Re-read your sentence. *Strategy*. That implies not a product that
> cannot break, but an APPROACH that can deliver an unbreakable system
> implementation.
>
>
>>Last I heard, PostGreSQL is still serving up domain names for the .ORG
>>domain name registry.
>
>
> Last I heard, assholes are still being born. They just grow bigger as
> they get older.
>
>
>>Orbitz blames Oracle for site outage:
>>http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-1026450.html?tag=fd_top
>
>
> And automatically you assume it is an Oracle issue?
>
> After an o/s upgrade to a Data Warehouse some years ago, we had all
> kinds of problems. Db just hanging and crashing.
>
> I spend some time with Oracle Support tracing the problem. It was a
> big issue. Mission critical corporate system down. It was escalated to
> the Munich Oracle Compotence Centre. The problem was traced... and
> turned out to have been caused by some friggen dumb jerk that forgot
> to install a kernel patch during the o/s upgrade. Async i/o was used
> by Oracle. And accepted by the kernel. But the kernel "forgot" to
> inform Oracle when the async i/o completed.
>
> Your posting kinda of remind me of that.. especially that friggen dumb
> jerk part.
>
> And this is btw not the exception.. I have many war stories about
> database downtime and crashes and errors. The vast majority of times
> it is caused by
> a) operating system bugs
> b) idiotic implementation that breaks not only Oracle strategies and
> rules, but common sense too
>
> When the shit hits the fan.. I prefer Oracle Support. And not
> Microsoft Support or OEM hardware vendor support (like IBM, ICL,
> Siemens, etc). The Oracle support guys I have had the pleassure to
> work with (locally and Europe), go beyond the extra mile.
>
> And this opinion is from bitter experience dealing with other support
> centres.
>
> --
> Billy
Received on Thu Jul 17 2003 - 10:53:23 CDT
