Re: Real reason for Oracle/Orbitz problem?

rkusenet wrote:

> "arabin" <arabin_at_cecity.com> wrote
>
> > Does anyone know what the problem was?
>
> I work in the travel industry, so I am naturally interested.
>
> From what I know, Orbitz uses only Oracle DB and not other
> stuff. Their search engine is totally memory based. In any
> travel industry site like Orbitz where there are million hits
> for searches, efficiency has to come from non database source
> because a database based search can be an impediment when it
> comes to scalability. So what Orbitz has done is to use a
> layer to map search data (stored in Oracle) into memory
> (C programs) and use LISP to do the actual searches.
> I think for other task, like booking a ticket and storing
> an intinerary they must be using Oracle.
>
> rk-

But, of course, between the end-users and the database there are several tiers that could be running Java, Perl, C, web servers, app servers, and who knows what else: Even cracker attacks.

Patience is called for. Eventually we will know what happened.

And when we do the important thing will be to learn from the experience. Microsoft had a huge security hole exposed today that affects all of their O/S offerings. I don't see panic in the streets on that and it affects every Windows machine on the planet.

Everyone should just take a deep breath and get back to their own issues for now.

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