tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147466.post59598602581639083..comments2024-02-04T23:25:47.079-08:00Comments on ORCLville: The Price of Progressfteterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11221041028141787708noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147466.post-54064835424856125732010-04-04T15:24:21.291-07:002010-04-04T15:24:21.291-07:00We absolutely have emotional attachments to old so...We absolutely have emotional attachments to old software. It's familiar, it's comfortable...we <i>know</i> it.<br /><br />When the latest greatest comes around we have to spend our already precious time learning new things. That's difficult. Sometimes it is just easiest to go with what we know.<br /><br />I'm fortunate, or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it, to have moved around a lot as a kid. Change is my normal. I have no sentimental attachments to anything but my kids and my family. I'm trying to change that...swearing to stay in Tampa so that my children can feel that attachment to certain things...I do think I missed out...but it has served me well professionally (personality = outgoing, change = normal, etc).oraclenerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12412013306950057961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147466.post-33806603429141639452010-03-31T09:09:26.507-07:002010-03-31T09:09:26.507-07:00A movie theater in my hometown was torn down some ...A movie theater in my hometown was torn down some time ago, and I can understand why. The theater was neither of the modern multiplex variety, nor of the elaborate variety - it was just a plain old theater with one screen, not even a true candidate for historic preservation.<br /><br />While a point can certainly be made that we sometimes remain attached to old technologies, I can also make the opposing point that sometimes new technologies are adopted for no useful purpose. If software vendors had their way, we'd buy full upgrades once the new releases were available, but in the real world you have to go through a period of justification first. When you face the CEO, you have to explain to him why we need to upgrade to the latest Windows, or the latest Linux, or the latest Oracle, and why you need to do it now. Normally you don't need to do it now, which is why there are a ton of Oracle Database 10g packages out there, why Windows XP is so dominant, and even why Internet Explorer 6 is still all over the place.<br /><br />Now people are going to argue that the older systems are unsafe and do not support the latest technologies, but if all you're doing is keeping track of addresses and phone numbers, does that really matter?Empopriseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06344839707203239586noreply@blogger.com