Hello All,
Too right! Exact same experience here at NOAA with the Oracle pl/sql
asset management application I took over...to the letter.
I started this position(as an Oracle developer/DBA) with "feature
requests" for that application more than two years old. I soon found
out why they had not been accomplished before I started on the project.
The lumbering beast that was so expensive to license and maintain
(Oracle quoted $300K to replace software)...was near impossible to
quickly adapt to changing business environments without breaking it
completely. The business logic(by design) was so integrated into the
system, we could hardly change without rewriting large portions of the
application/database and testing for weeks.
Today the same application completely re-vamped in ROR takes up about
54mb of disk and runs free on multi-threaded Postgresql.
Feature request turn over today, with testing, is about a week.
I consider myself to be a recovering Oracle developer now. (thanx ara,
my wise teacher)
ha!
am
ara.t.howard wrote:
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.
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