Slashdot Mirror

Then perhaps AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle need to sit down and negotiate what constitutes a core for the purpose of licensing proprietary software.

Oracle's PL/SQL is also said to have been inspired by Ada, although it has evolved from its original incarnation.

The syntax of PL/SQL is a bit jarring for those accustomed to C, C++, Java, and that syntactical language group.

The Oracle HTTP server is a simple Web HTTPD server (Web listener). It is based on the Apache Web Server provided by the Apache Group

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/HTTP_Server_FAQ

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is Oracle's Linux distribution. OEL is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is binary compatible with Red Hat (not a fork!).

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Enterprise_Linux

So why isn't the open-source community taking advantage of this leverage? Just prevent Oracle from using your products for free. Make sure Oracle pays you (you = Red Hat, ASF) when they download your products. Oracle is vulnerable. Take advantage of it, for crying out loud.

Oracle is using your stuff for free, Mr. Red Hat and Mr. ASF, and making big money with it.

The Oracle HTTP server is a simple Web HTTPD server (Web listener). It is based on the Apache Web Server provided by the Apache Group

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/HTTP_Server_FAQ

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is Oracle's Linux distribution. OEL is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is binary compatible with Red Hat (not a fork!).

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Enterprise_Linux

So why isn't the open-source community taking advantage of this leverage? Just prevent Oracle from using your products for free. Make sure Oracle pays you (you = Red Hat, ASF) when they download your products. Oracle is vulnerable. Take advantage of it, for crying out loud.

Oracle is using your stuff for free, Mr. Red Hat and Mr. ASF, and making big money with it.

It would be nice to be able to set this on a transaction by transaction basis. Sort of like this perhaps, or with some sort of session variable.

Aren't you basically talking about a materialized view? (This FAQ item has a simpler explanation than you'll get digging through the documentation above)

I haven't worked with materialized views, but if you want notification when the data changes, usually you can set up a trigger...

Why would you even try that? For relevant workloads there are more requests than CPUs, handling multiple requests in parallel is inherently more efficient than trying to parallelize a single request. As for Oracle, the query level parallelization is pretty primitive ... but a cursory google search shows it exists http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Parallel_Query_FAQ

More like scott:tiger
...or maybe even gaben
:)

What exactly is the advantage of Oracle over SQL Server?

I'm rather fond of their Analytic Functions, which allow for convenient queries against other table rows. For example, given a table of time-stamped log entries you can write a query to "Show me the time intervals between successive log entries."

I'm hoping these will show up in Postgresql soon.

Oracle on NetWare beens out for a while now.
http://www.orafaq.com/faqnetwr.htm

Personally, I think that it would be a bad move for Oracle to attempt to expand into the desktop OS/app market. They don't have the experience at that level.

"The standard Oracle license agreement normally prevents users from publishing benchmark results." -http://www.orafaq.com/faqora.htm#SPEED

And of course you can't include Oracle in any impartial study.

You could, except for the fact that the license you just paid thousands per CPU for doesn't allow you to publish the results.

COM and it's OLE predecessors

You, just like everyone else, seem to be confused on what COM, OLE, ActiveX, etc are and how they relate.

COM is simply a CROSS-PLATFORM binary interface standard. It isn't Windows only, either.

OLE is a SET of defined COM interfaces to Link and Embed Objects in documents (and similar). ActiveX was part marketing gimmick and part new version of OLE. This brought forth the mighty IDispatch interface for Automation.

http://www.orafaq.com/glossary/faqglosc.htm#COM

Geographic Information System. A computer software system with which spatial information (eg. maps) can be captured, stored, analyzed, displayed and retrieved.

1. advisory locks suck, let's get real file locking. (either you can't open a locked file, or, having opened the locked file, writes to file should fail)
   
2. (as others have said) reorganize the filesystem, make it simpler and more logical. (What's the fscking difference between /bin and /usr/bin? What about /usr/local/bin and /opt/bin?)
   
3. crib some stuff from VMS: my pick is logical names. (logical names are names that don't physically appear in the file system but which can be referenced through the file system as if they physically existed).
   
4. (also as others have said) get a better file system. ReiserFS is a start, but we need more policy as well as well as mechanism.
   
5. As long as we're on the mechanism/policy thing, we need more standardised policy for user interfaces and UI APIs. KDE and Gnome are bad starts in the right direction.
   
6. UNIX configuration sucks. It's so bad that I don't even know where to begin. We need to have, at least, some configuration system that is simple enough for regular mortals to deal with (especially if we want to see Linux on home desktops). As I said, this is such a mess that I don't even know where to start.
   

That would be true if for except the small fact that open/closed source implementations already exist.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/4/dbfs.html
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~vernal/learn/cs261r/d bfs-proposal.pdf
http://www.thyme.net/imp/dbfs.html
http://www.eamonwalsh.com/projects/masters/writeup .pdf
http://www.orafaq.com/faqifs.htm
http://relfs.sourceforge.net/Home.html

One could presumably go on.

At least so far as commercial products go, Oracle was the first. To save a click, Oracle V1 was a consulting project used solely by CIA and dating back to 1978. Oracle V2 was the first marketed version starting in 1980.

OK point taken. A webdev-aware word processor could then look at the previous version and show the differences on screen.

I am surprised nobody has implemented that yet

Oracle iFS does this.

this articles a good read so take the time to go through it as it summarises innovation from the early internet years to date.

innovation. The trick is finding that one crazy idea. The problem with crazy ideas, though, is that for every one good crazy idea, there's a thousand bad crazy ideas

the eternal quest for an idea. you better start with a good idea. if you don't, no matter how hard you try it wont pan out.

the Internet community back then, the key technical people, didn't want the Internet to become easy to use or graphical, ... Only smart people could use the Internet ...so we needed to keep it hard to use

what other examples can you think of right now?... only smart people can use [insert you own example]

Mosaic started with 12 users in February 1993. It had 1,000 users within three or four weeks. About 10,000 users by spring. It was up to 1 million by early 1994

Posters who question why Andreessen has such prominence should reflect on this. No Mosaic (mozilla), no Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE Based on NCSA Mosaic code base licensed from Spyglass), no World Wide Web in the early to mid 90's. No doubt someone else may have invented the browser but how much longer would it have taken?

At first that makes you like a little bunny rabbit ... Everybody wants to play with you ....within a year ... fearsome competitors shooting at your head with high-powered ammunition

Larry, Sergi do you feel the hot breath of the MS juggernaut as you approach your IPO. Will google will be a repeat of Netscape/MS tussle?

Oracle database was a huge success ... Larry's spent the last 25 years trying to come up with the next product

it sure helps when the government (CIA) is your preferred backer. Why does oracle feel the need to keep trying to re-innovate or create the next best idea?

innovation comes from companies that are 2 years old, populated by 19-year-olds ... preposterous that Marc should think that innovation is .. the province of little entrepreneurial companies.

In fact it's both. The technical revolution was spurred on the back of the transistor. This was the combined effort of Bardeen, Brattain and shockley at Bell Labs - no small comany there ... but look at Intel, though a big company now, it was started with the (not so young) Noyce, Moore and Grove. What about the Linux kernel, third person shooters and that other search engine, Yahoo?

Redhat ships with a database, not a fs-database-fs bridge. The Oracle IFS is a bit more than just a database. It seems to me to be a way to justify the ridiculous amount you just spent on an Oracle license by making it your fileserver too, but that's probably just me being cynical - it does have some interesting features which aren't all available together elsewhere.

Agreed about the barratry.