It's like a cartoon I've seen in a french IT magazine. On the first slide there is the IT director bragging about it's huge mainframe to track the lost luggages across all airlines. In the next slide, you see the fresh new employee just hired from school who says I just develop on my laptop a program to prevent losing the passengers luggage ....
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Ok, this is kind of off topic, but it does have > Oracle in it at least once. > > I just couldn't resist sending this to the list. > > How many of us have had an experience similar to > this? > > I've had at least two I can think of. > > The worst was after a merger, and we went with the > other companies more expensive, proprietary system > for a data warehouse. (Ours was Oracle on AIX, > theirs > was TeraData on NCR ) > > The reason? And I heard this with my own ears > coming > from the mouth of a VP: > > "It was a business decision. Our system is only 2 > million dollars, and theirs is 11 million, so we're > going with theirs." > > This from a business that hadn't made money in 4 > years. > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Shark Tank: Works, shmerks -- how much did it cost? > > This sysadmin pilot fish discovers that his company > needs to > distribute updates to a cluster of Unix servers. > > "Simple enough," says fish. "I write some scripts > that copy the data > out and append it to the files that need it. It all > works well and it > tests out great." > > But as the deadline for the rollout approaches, fish > learns that the > company has spent a six-figure wad of dough on a big > commercial > software package to distribute the data -- including > a full-time > engineer to run it. > > "My scripts are ripped out and replaced by a set of > four dedicated > distribution servers running this giant package," > says fish. > > OK, he can live with that. After all, his scripts > are being replaced > by four servers and a dedicated engineer. > > But there are implementation problems, and bugs, and > the deadline is > missed, and expenses on the project skyrocket. The > dedicated engineer > is spending all her time on the phone with the > vendor's tech support, > just trying to get things working. > > Meanwhile, fish's scripts are still humming along > perfectly in the > preproduction environment. Say, fish suggests to > management, maybe we > should forget about giant six-figure, four-server > packages and consider > implementing this simple, effective solution that > actually works. > > And management turns him down cold. > > The reason? "If we use a home-rolled solution, we > won't have tech > support," his boss tells him. > > "And, as we have seen, we make heavy use of tech > support for this > problem." > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > Can't get enough Tank? > > Check out other bite-sized bits of humor, rumors, > gossip and fun at > The Sharkives: > > http://www.computerworld.com/departments/opinions/sharktank > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: > http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: > (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet > access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an > E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of > 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information > (like subscribing). > > ===== Stéphane Paquette DBA Oracle, consultant entrepôt de données Oracle DBA, datawarehouse consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?paquette=20stephane?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
