Oracle making it tough for me to keep my Lenten vow
April 3, 2007For Lent you’re supposed to make a personal sacrifice. In the old days that usually meant fasting or at least some kind of abstinence. Like not drinking, or not having sex, whatever. Nowadays most people choose to give up something they like, such as not eating chocolate during the 40 days of Lent.
This year I decided to give up something I knew would be difficult–I decided I’ve give up hating Oracle software. If you know me, you’re aware that having a negative attitude about many things is just part of my nature. I like to think I”m a realist but the reality is I’m probably a bit too much of the glass-half-empty type of person. Giving up any negative attitude is guaranteed to be difficult.
This particular one more so because I work with lots of Oracle software every day. From midtier stuff (Portal and OC4J) to databases (10g and XE) to development tools (SQLDeveloper and JDeveloper). And it all has a tendency to, how can I put this, work in non-optimal ways.
But I decided on giving up my negative Oracle attitude because I thought it would be healthier for me. You know, positive thinking leads to positive outcomes. Maybe if I feel better about the software it will work better.
Right now I’m just really glad Easter is this weekend because I’m not certain how much longer I can keep up this Lenten vow. I am struggling with Oracle Portal and Oracle Reports, and it’s so difficult not to hate Oracle for making crappy software. Instead I’m trying to keep a positive outlook–we have a very difficult architecture and it’s only natural that software this complicated will have a few integration challenges. We can work thru these, nothing we’ve encountered is fatal to the system.
Please let Easter come soon, end this season of Lent. Because Oracle software is really starting to get on my nerves again.
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You could always take the middle ground and call the glass twice as big as it needs to be
Lest you have any hope, let me just say I wouldn’t hold out any that Oracle software will ever improve; their best engineers work on the database; the rest are flunkies. It has sucked since I started using it in ‘91. Geez, I remember using a third-party ODBC driver, because theirs had a bug. There was Oracles Forms 3 & 4, Oracle Financials, etc.
From a glass half-full perspective, just think of it like this: whenever you think MS software sucks, remember that Oracle’s is worse.
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