Re: here's a good one from dizwell on the recent product launch

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:06:56 +0200, sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:21:09 -0700, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
>wrote:
>
>>> ... why do you think so many things only use 7.3 features?
>>
>>Because many people are terminally lazy and many companies would
>>rather make money selling consulting services (tuning) rather
>>than making a decent product.
>
>Actually, no: Because many companies don't NEED the new features.
>We have one customer running a HRM package on 8i and Win2k.
>They don't upgrade the HRM package, because they don't need a new
>version (probably they aren't even aware there is a new one).
>Consequently they don't upgrade Microsux and they don't upgrade
>Oracle.
>Their server is 5 years old. It works!

If you walk into some datacenter, and you'll walk around the racks, you'd be surprised how manymany 8-12year old servers still appear to work. I have an 8 year old desktop that works.

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We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3 and Solaris 10 (Sparc) remove NSPAM to email Received on Wed Jul 25 2007 - 23:11:50 CDT