"Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in
news:KAC2g.4831$Lm5.2557_at_newssvr12.news.prodigy.com:
>
> <xg_at_oraclexg.com> wrote in message
> news:1145515759.282256.260060_at_u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
>> http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/08/28/23563.aspx
>> wrote:
>>
>> Allright, so I installed Oracle personal edition on my desktop. Here
>> are my peeves against oracle -
>>
>> a) First of all, the installation was in 3 cd's equivalent - so much
>> for microsoft being bloatware.
>> b) When my PC boots up, I have Oracle's process taking up 96 MB of
>> memory compared to SQL Server's under 10MB, the memory usage keeps
>> going up exponentially as I use either product.
>> c) Here's my biggest problem - when I wanted to uninstall Oracle, it
>> isn't in add/remove programs like all other friendly citizens of the
>> computer world, instead it has it's own crappy java based installer,
>> and instead of uninstall they prefer to call it "Deinstall", and
>> what's worse in the treeview it shows me, when I check an item to be
>> unistalled, the zillions of items under it, are still unchecked - are
>> they going to be uninstalled or will they be not? It takes a minimum
>> of 3-4 hours to individually check everything there is.
>> d) When the frickin' "de"-installation is complete, the installer
>> remains on the system. But it's group dissappears from my start menu
>> or add/remove programs or everywhere. Is there spyware in that?
>> e) Talk about all the JUNK that Oracle installed in the first place,
>> look at your registry before and after Oracle got done trading the
>> soul of your poor PC, it adds many megabytes of information to the
>> registry .. what in the world !!!!
>>
>> Larry Ellison IMHO has only one business idea - "Defeat bill gates
>> and trap every programmer in matrix like pods powering oracle
>> databases". WHAT THE HECK !! Time he matured up a bit.
>>
>
> Yup, Oracle may have gotten too carried away with the Java stuff. They
> are using it where ever possible. JVM is a problematic, memory
such as exactly where?
"problematic"? such as where & demonstrated by which metrics?
> robbing, slow beast we all have to put up with.
Based upon which reproducable and measurable metrics compared to what?
Received on Sun Apr 23 2006 - 00:00:23 CDT
