Re: Senior Oracle DBA now Learning Informix by Request of Company:IThought Informix was Dead?
Serge Rielau wrote: > There are IIUG board members running 6000+ IDS instances with a handful > of DBA's. I haven't heard similar claims for Oracle, have you? > (Haven't heard them for DB2 either) My cat could run 6000+ Oracle or DB2 instances too. The question is not the number of DBAs but rather what those people are doing with their time. Without knowing the quality of those installations and what they are used for ... the number if meaningless. But in answer to your original question ... yeah there's a pretty large aerospace company here in Seattle that could likely make a similar claim. The Grid Control has only been out for a few years so perhaps you haven't heard of it. <g> -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.org
DA Morgan wrote: > Serge Rielau wrote: > >> There are IIUG board members running 6000+ IDS instances with a >> handful of DBA's. I haven't heard similar claims for Oracle, have you? >> (Haven't heard them for DB2 either) > > My cat could run 6000+ Oracle or DB2 instances too. The question is not > the number of DBAs but rather what those people are doing with their > time. Without knowing the quality of those installations and what they > are used for ... the number if meaningless. Ah.. of course these are 6000 toy installations on someones laptop that run a printf() command in a tight loop. You got me. Then again it could be a couple of these IDS instances run a big box store each and I'm quite certain you shop in on of those stores frequently unless you pay rent. > But in answer to your original question ... yeah there's a pretty large > aerospace company here in Seattle that could likely make a similar > claim. The Grid Control has only been out for a few years so perhaps > you haven't heard of it. <g> Ah, but why control something that doesn't need controlling? IDS is no teenager... Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab WAIUG Conference http://www.iiug.org/waiug/present/Forum2006/Forum2006.html