How to tell the world that your companys product is swiss cheese
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Write a blog post detailing how you and your company scold those who 'White Hat' your software
Oracle's chief information security officer Mary Ann Davidson ruffled a few feathers on Tuesday in a 3000-word rant detailing how it scolds customers who reverse-engineer its products to find bugs that may undermine the security of their own systems.
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Yeah - the blind leading the blind...
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This just feeds into the list of "why to consider something more modern and current." If Oracle DB seems like a good choice, check out PostgreSQL.
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How many people are still using Oracle databases? I know that some big companies still have them left over from when they were still popular, but is anyone still deploying Oracle on any real scale?
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Sadly, there are several products in the education space that require Oracle Databases (Banner, anybody?)... A couple of the setups I have seen are just... crazy. (One system I know of has 6 different database servers clustered together (not sure if active/active or active / passive ) for high availability ^W^W redundancy (fixed that for you, Scott! 8-) ).
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@dafyre said:
Sadly, there are several products in the education space that require Oracle Databases (Banner, anybody?)... A couple of the setups I have seen are just... crazy. (One system I know of has 6 different database servers clustered together (not sure if active/active or active / passive ) for high availability ^W^W redundancy (fixed that for you, Scott! 8-) ).
Do they work with PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL has options for being a drop in replacement for Oracle.
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Sadly, no, as far as I know our Enterprise Apps team is pretty much married to Oracle for the Banner development stuff... They keep me siloed into Windows / Linux admin, so I don't really get to mess with the coding stuff to much.
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@dafyre said:
Sadly, no, as far as I know our Enterprise Apps team is pretty much married to Oracle for the Banner development stuff... They keep me siloed into Windows / Linux admin, so I don't really get to mess with the coding stuff to much.
So it is the apps team demanding Oracle because they.... like wasting money... and not because it is a requirement of any kind? Lots of shops want Oracle, but lots get nice swag from buying it too
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Here is the PostgreSQL based EnterpriseDB which is a drop in replacement for Oracle. App people should have no way to tell the difference.
http://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
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@scottalanmiller Sadly, no... it is a State university system requiring us to use Banner which requires Oracle... State demands trump local decisions, sadly.
They do a bit with MySQL as well (I have yet to see a pgsql instance on campus yet)...
I check that link you sent... is the Enterprise Postgresql free? I've never messed around with pgsql... looks like I need to pick it up!
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller Sadly, no... it is a State university system requiring us to use Banner which requires Oracle... State demands trump local decisions, sadly.
That's the beauty of EnterpriseDB, it's a drop in for Oracle. It's a full Oracle API database running PostgreSQL underneath. So it satisfies the phrase "requires Oracle."
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@dafyre said:
I check that link you sent... is the Enterprise Postgresql free? I've never messed around with pgsql... looks like I need to pick it up!
I believe that it is. It's definitely much cheaper than Oracle with support.
