Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:03:22 -0500 (EST) From: Naief Bin Talal <naief@cyfari.com> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial Database Use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911111237530.64882-100000@naief.cyfari.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991110220244.00ac2e40@email.eden.rutgers.edu>
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Go with Sun... I think this is the best advice for you. If your managers are adamant about anything technical, it means one of two things; both could spell trouble for you in the future. 1. They are clueless. How could they intrust their startup to a person and then interfere in their work. Such management types are very quick to blame your choices when anything goes wrong. If this is the case your are best advised to choose what they want and whatever "everyone else is using" and whats supported by a huge company which "understands our business" and so on. This way when :-) things go wrong your answer is the standard acceptable to them; we are on the phone with Sun/Oracle Sir/Ma'am!. 2. They don't fully trust your judgment. If that is the case then you better do exactly what they want. Face the truth you are not their designer and they apparently have not hired you as such, so don't act like you are. Just do what they want you to do or find another employer who value your skill and judgment. This advice I offer to you in good faith.. take it or leave it .. but if I were you I would take it to heart and save myself a massive headache. Please Don't be offended by my harsh way, I've never been a diplomat before :-<. Cheers, Naief. BTW: I use FreeBSD all the time, because I never accpet to work for anyone who does not trust my jugdment! ------------------------------------------------------- Naief BinTalal | naief@cyfari.com Chief Engine Architect | more == less CyFari, Inc | join the tribe The Aggregation Engine | http://www.cyfari.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral" -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery ------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Carroll Kong wrote: > Hi. I have been using FreeBSD for quite some time and I feel it is a > great OS. Now I am put into a position where I will lead the system design > for a startup company. I want to use FreeBSD, but my employers are adamant > at using Oracle. Any idea when Oracle will be released? And even so, is > Oracle for FreeBSD going to be robust enough to handle the load? I cannot > give out too many details due to an NDA (I am really sorry), but they > assure me we will reach large loads. (estimate load of a medium sized > company with a lot of database access / web accesses). So relatively > complex queries, and a good number of them. > I have deeply considered solaris + oracle instead, but I have a strong > desire and trust in FreeBSD. Does anyone have any advice they can give me > on this? Thanks deeply in advance. > > -Carroll Kong > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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