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I'm Andy Lester, and I like to test stuff. I also write for the Perl Journal, and do tech edits on books. Sometimes I write code, too.
Letting the train go by
I am getting to the point where I can't read your magazine any more. I'm a developer, but all of the Oracle Magazine articles I see lately discuss Java, JDBC, SQLJ, JSP, XML, SOAP (Dial?), UDDI, WSDL, LDAP, Servlet, JSP, etc. In our shop, we use Oracle products named Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i. I never see articles on these products. Doesn't anyone else use them any more? Are we the last ones?
Mark Castaldo
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I'm baffled by technology professionals who cheerfully watch the march of technology continue onward without even trying to understand what's going on. How can Mark know that he's providing the best value to the company, and his company to its clients, stuck on Oracle 6? Does Mark know what functionality JDBC could provide? SOAP? LDAP?
And from a magazine perspective, I wonder what does Mark expect to be written about Oracle 6 that hasn't already been written.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i (Score:1)
Re:Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i (Score:2)
My comments re: Java etc still hold, though...
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xoa
Re:Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i (Score:2)
Not necessarily. There are plenty of shops that are using legacy software products. Sometimes the reasons are technologically and fiscally sound. Other times the reasons are simply artifacts of history. (I worked at a PRIME shop once where the main languages in use were FORTRAN IV and Fortran 77. Why? Because the system where the company initially leased computer time many years before used PRIME computers, and FORTRAN IV was the only language availab
Re:Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i (Score:2)
In many cases, scrapping a system in favor of a new or updated package is foolish -- especially if the existing system works well, but the alternatives are unknown, untried and untested (by an organization). I'm sure there's plenty of demand for Oracle-only skills, especially if a company is offering its services to organizations that use Oracle widely and deeply. Marching to the beat of "new technology" benefits the vendor, not the customer.
Of the acronyms this baffled read
Re:Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i (Score:2)
The point that I got from the letter, especially his oh-so-cute "SOAP (Dial?)", was that he had no idea what any of these technologies were, and was proud of it.
Far be it from me to say that there's necessarily any value to SOAP/JDBC/whatever to this guy, but he should at least have some passing familiarity with the concepts of many of them. Otherwise, he's going to wind up like the COBOL-only programmer who finally decides to learn C and fails miserab
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Re:Oracle Developer 6i and Oracle Designer 6i (Score:2)