Really annoying pet peeve
Like certain types think they must own their hardware and nothing else can run on it - leading to one instance of a Oracle database "development" on one server per application use they also think they must have their own set of DBA's. Is this really necessary, practical, cost-effective - I say no.
To me there are different advantages to not segregating this way and sharing best practices, IT infrastructure personnel, production DBA's across the board.
I say this negates economies of scale, best practices.... I could see some use of production and application DBA's on the same system but for each and every one?????????????????????????????????????????/
