Re: ORACLE RAC CRASHES ORBITZ

but it's so much fun to make fun of the big dogs. let us poor groundlings enjoy our penny's worth of laughter. sometimes a joke is just a joke. >>> Daniel Morgan <damorgan@exxesolutions.com> 07/28/03 11:29AM >>> Mark A wrote: > > > Tom Longfellow wrote: > > > > > > > GOD!! sometimes I just HATE the internet. It is too easy to be > > > > misinterpreted. My suggestions were tongue in cheek. I TOTALLY get > > > > marketing. I was just commenting on how marketing departments can > > > > embarrass their companies. > > > > > > > > <snipped> > > > > > > This is why emoticons were invented. ;-) > > > > > > Sorry if I didn't see your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. > > > > > > Unfortunately PT Barnum was correct. And we will be dealing with the > effluent > > > of marketing departments right up until customers use their own brains > and stop > > > buying the drivel they produce. And that will not be in our lifetimes. > > > > Just a rumor mind you, but the Orbitz glitch has been traced to some > > hardware issues...will post more if I hear more. > > > > Mike > > Yes, it will turn out to be a hardware problem even if Larry Ellison has to > buy the hardware company and then have the hardware company accept the > blame. What a blivet. In an environment as complex as Orbitz's a crash could be caused by many things. Hardware, operating systems, networks, routers, hubs, databases, tools, etc. etc. etc. right down to a poorly run code review on some internally generated program or a DBA or SysAdmin that made an innocent mistake. But you are so knee-jerk negative toward Larry, who I doubt has ever taken a single dollar from your pocket, you jump to a conclusion the size of Mt. Everest. Give it a break. As Freud once said ... "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Do the universe a favor. Wait for the facts to come out: They will. Then comment on the facts. If they demonstrate Oracle was responsible so what. Has DB2 never been responsible for a crash? Informix? Sybase? A 'C' compiler? -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply) sending to informix-list