2007-05-30

My five Oracle wishes

Brian Duff @ Oracle.com challenged us to amuse ourselves and others by coming up with 5 wishes for Oracle, even if traditionally wishes are the purview of Genies.

1) Come up with a new database product for the next 15 years, designed to overcome modern limitations. Servers have gigabytes of memory instead of kilobytes. The game is now about collaboration between people instead of trying to think like a machine.

2) Tell your developers unambiguously to stop using PL/SQL for their applications. Triggers, sure. Applications, please don't.

3) Come up with a support offering of such incredible value that it will change the way companies hire developers. Push your new database to every Linux server and desktop on Earth, for free.

4) Get out of the application server and IDE "businesses" and become a huge actor in existing application server and IDE communities.

5) Roll out standardized quality metrics, and automated quality measurement tools for every one of your products and platforms.
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2 comments:

  1. Mikael,

    As someone who knows nothing but PL/SQL (and thinks rather highly of it), I am intrigued by your #2 priority. Could you please explain why you would tell the world to never use PL/SQL?

    Thanks,

    Steven Feuerstein
    www.ToadWorld.com/SF
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  2. To Steven:

    If you have made large investment into PL/SQL, then it might suit you fine - but for the rest of the world trying to debug software that has moving bits and pieces in every single layer can be a drag. Oh, and don't get me started about creating web apps with Pl/sql.

    Mikael uses harsh tone of saying never to use Pl/sql, which in real life means that most of the time people are not capable of knowing when shooting themselves in the leg will hurt them, even though there might be some good reasons to do so. So to keep on the safe side better to say just say no.
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