"F. Alfredo Rego" wrote:
>
> Glenn Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
...>
> >I am quite shocked that Mr. Martyn "usually gets aggressive replies."
> >I have seen only help from him, and NEVER an "Oracle Rulez" attitude.
> >His caring about the 3000 is evident from his participation in hp3000-L.
> >Given the size of Oracle Corp., I am a bit surprised that he is the ONLY
> >active rep from Oracle on the list.
> >
> >If I were an Oracle-on-the-3000 user, I would be darned glad (as Richard
> >Gambrell is/was) that Vince is here to help.

Just a little clarification for the record.

Our application vendor is not Oracle. I did not intend to imply anything
about Oracle, the company or the database itself.  Our Oracle dB is on
HP-UX.  Actually, once we got it up and running, the Oracle database has
been very stable.  Our Unix and Oracle production database nicely survived
and recovered with no loss of data from a hard crash due to a processor
failure on our K570 (If anybody wants details, Jeff K can fill you in).
This system had been up from, I think, April, until it crashed a couple of
weeks ago - just as good a record as our MPE system.  The Oracle database
is restarted weekly, mostly to get a cold backup. My biggest complaint
about Oracle database is the utter complexity of all the options and
possibilities. One had better know what one is doing if one is going to
run a business on one.

We considered and would have preferred the 3000 as our Oracle platform,
but our application vendor no longer supported it and there were so many
other issues that we didn't want to have deal with non-support.  Also, at
the time of the decision, we were also still running MPE on a 960!  Today
we have a 969.

>
> "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
...
> >
> >Hey Alfredo - send these guys an Adager cube :-)
>
> With pleasure.  In fact, there are TWO Adager MemoCubes on their way
> (one for Richard Gambrell of UTC for having kept an HP3000 alive and
> well and one for Vince Martyn of Oracle for his wonderful
> contributions through the years).  We are ALL glad that Vince is here
> to help, as Glenn so aptly wrote.

Alfredo, thanks for another cube and I agree wholeheartedly that Vince
deserves one (let's all hope it doesn't get him in trouble at Oracle).

--
Richard L Gambrell
Database Administrator and
Consultant to Computing Services at UTC

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