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On my previous work they run Oracle 9i on HPUX Itanium server. It was horribly slow (my laptop was faster) and weird to work with, it really dragged them down.
by vbezhenar 3y ago
On my previous work they run Oracle 9i on HPUX Itanium server. It was horribly slow (my laptop was faster) and weird to work with, it really dragged them down. They had to call pricey consultant for very basic tasks and those consultants did bad job. I could do anything with Linux, but there's no way I'd touch this thing with a long pole, it's absolutely foreign and I'm not really interested learning forgotten proprietary things that have zero value on job market.
Still works as of today, AFAIK.
- snovymgodym 3y agoThat's insane to me. Oracle is just a relational database right? Wonder why that hasn't been migrated long ago. Guess it's just a case of not wanting to touch something that "works".
- TylerE 3y agoOracle is a marketing engine for consultants that masquerades as a relational database to get through the front door.
- ForOldHack 3y agoOracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products and offers services that complement them (such as financing, training, consulting, and hosting services). So... Lets try that again... Oracle offers services like hosting services, consulting, training, financing, and compliments these with hardware and software products, manufacturing and design. So.. Sales, sales, more sales, coffee, then sales, some sales, and more sales. Oracle is a marketing engine. I am going to call that true.
- pstuart 3y agoIt is insane, but it's a reflection of the incentive structure (like everywhere else). Lots of risk with little recognizable upside. It's funny that companies can ostensibly track their expenses down to the penny but can't recognize the costs of technical debt.
- chasil 3y agoOracle 9i went out of regular patch support in 2007. If you found whatever PC that you were running from this era, would it be slower than your laptop? Very likely.
- organsnyder 3y agoI'm pretty sure my smartwatch is more powerful than my 2007-era PC, at least for some metrics.
- hulitu 3y ago> I'm pretty sure my smartwatch is more powerful than my 2007-era PC, at least for some metrics. It syphones your data faster. That's all.
- vbezhenar 3y agoI run it in the Windows XP VM running on VirtualBox.
- sillywalk 3y agoOracle is what happened to a Software Licensing Agreement so complex, that when it was finally completed and signed, it collapsed into a singularity and gained both sentience and an intense desire to destroy any and all good in the world. ?bad grammar?
- ZiiS 3y agoMy NVMe laptop also runs a DB faster then Multi-AZ RDS costing its total purchase price per month. TBH I am not even sure if bandwidth and availability are actually better but I know where I run production.
- pvtmert 3y agoRDS's storage is not physically mounted there. It uses network (hence, EBS). Plus, value of RDS = not having to upgrade/replicate cluster and backups manually. Of course there are better managed services...
- chasil 3y agoLogical volume management under Linux is very close in syntax to HP-UX, and this was intentional. "Heinz Mauelshagen wrote the original LVM code in 1998, when he was working at Sistina Software, taking its primary design guidelines from the HP-UX's volume manager." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)