Oracle's web site is push a "Unbreakable" "can't break it"
theme, but the Oracle store is currently offline for maintenance.
Maybe I don't understand what they mean by break it"?  Why break it
if it breaks itself?  Can't Oracle run a 24x7 shop and make seamless
transitions between application versions and do transparent database
maintenance?

I was very amused at a conference recently where we were discussing
online, self-service applications.  Everyone around the table was
bemoaning either taking the system down for maintenance and backups
or how they had discovered bad bottlenecks that had slowed their
systems to a crawl when they released self-service applications.
All the while I was sitting there smiling (grinning, really) saying,
no we don't have that problem and no we don't have that one either
and gee, that sounds terrible, glad it doesn't happen to me.  All
because I'm using MPE and Image and Turbostore online and a few other
MPE goodies.

Now *that's* the way to run a business, the MPE way.

Richard
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