Danisment,
10 Centralisation will occur.
20 Distribution will occur
30 go to 10
Anyone who's been in IT for more than about 6 years will have gone through
the cycle at least once. It's got more to do with management making a name
for themselves than any rational argument.
Money's the ONLY thing
Hmmm...if Oracle hosts my database, and something bad happens, and it goes
down for the day.
Is Oracle going to pay me for the downtime? I think not.
Is Oracle going to reimburse me for all the sales I lost? I think not.
I'm sure some Oracle rep will make me all kinds of promises that
Chris,
Our company as well as many others do host databases for our customers and
yes we have SLA's which specify financial costs associated with not meeting
them. Oracle is not doing anything new in this sense.
Thanks,
Ethan Post
perotdba (AIM), epost1 (Yahoo)
In terms of adding information to this discussion, here is an article in
Infoworld. You'll have to paste the URL back together.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/se/xml/02/04/29/020429seoracle.xml
The sentence that caught my eye is: Just when we thought we had seen them
all, a new twist to
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/se/xml/02/04/29/020429seoracle.xml
Dave
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RANT
This has all been tried before, and the predictions are the
same: financial nirvana, big savings in technology costs,
no pesky holier-than-thou DBA's baffling poor damagers
with stuff they can't possibly understand.
/RANT
Very few executive, managers or DBA's are going to want
to place
My daughter works for a large retailer here in Minneapolis, MN. They got
one of these big outfits that promised them the moon, etc. The companies
initials are IBwhatever. Guess who the call when they can't figure out
something? The IS staff. Big deal!
Ken Janusz, CPIM
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Jared,
The other problem with outsourcing, which we've run head on into, is that an
ASP wants you to run the application plain vanilla. Customization of an
application to fit your business/needs is one area they really do not like to
handle. Makes upgrading a pain in the *^, which means
My browser says page not found.
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes
Technology Services| Services technologiques
Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique
Maritimes Region, DFO |
are running PeopleSoft 7 while the remainder are
on Peoplesoft 8. Also your patch levels will vary, due to the
customization. Hence, if you need to customize you can't outsource.
Dick Goulet
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Author: Jared
Me thinks this is related to all the other hot topics out there...
Centralize the computers, then another CIO comes in, decentralize all the
computers...every division gets there own...a genius.
IT is outsourced, problems, slow response, a new CIO comes in, let's bring
everything in house under
Curiously, as an ASP we've been contracted by some organizations for
just that reason. Someone in upper management decides that their
ability to enhance shareholder value is hindered by their current
business rules. So they mandate using our application with little or
no customization, driving
Hello List,
Maybe, some of you will not be agree with me, But, I think centralization will
occur.
Let's imagine that There is no banking system in the world and everyone keeps their
money at home. And, someone claims that there will be banks and people will give
money to banks. In this case, we
Title: RE: Oracle wants your job
You are correct about one thing - some of us will not agree with you especially about centralized information and democracy.
Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
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