On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:11, Bothari <[email protected]> wrote: > One client I worked for had the same idea. They did their entire > eCommerce site in PL/SQL for Oracle. They didn't do it for security, > but because PL/SQL was so versatile. It "rendered" pages, parsed xml, > wrote files, and sent email. It was abandoned because it was so > complicated and fragile that upgrades took forever, and it took 3 > full-time testers to keep bugs (mostly) out of production.
i had the same experience at NOAA actually. in the end they canned the guy running it and started over from scratch on rails ;-) you might ask alex mendoza about it - he is the one who wrote the new rails app - bcc'd on this message. -- -a -- be kind whenever possible... it is always possible - h.h. the 14th dalai lama _______________________________________________ Bdrg-members mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members
