Using Python for processing of large datasets (convincing managment)

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Alex Martelli wrote:

> Wrong.  Very wrong.  If you can afford Oracle, you can afford to
> hire (or at least regularly retain a freelance) expert help to
> tune it, keep it tuned, make it perform to its potential.

{lots snipped}

The justification for Oracle is that there's a lot of people on tap for
problem solving.

The bit that bites, as you note, is that you _need_ those people on tap
for Oracle to be useful.

Having been involved with Ingres for a while, its easy to see the
management types get itchy that there weren't that many Ingres people
about.  The fact that the installation was pretty much self tuning and
the Ingres specialists weren't needed very much was lost on the PHBs.

The real problem with Ingres was that CA hardly bothered to really make
much of it.  That just made the Oracle decision a no-brainer for the PHBs.

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