acquisition update
Jun. 10th, 2005 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Adobe's systems infrastructure is a mess. There's compartmentalization up the ass and they're running production applications on Sun Enterprise 450s (laypeople: imagine a minibar refrigerator on wheels full of hard drives, powered by a Pentium II). The only trick will be to wear down their higher-level IT people and let them see the light, namely, We Do Things The Right Way And You Don't, So Give Us The Keys And Let Us Fucking Drive Already. They run Oracle Calendar, and the gits actually want us to transition to it right away, only to transition back to Exchange Calendar once we're fully integrated. We must be firm, because we're so far ahead of them in almost every aspect, it's not even funny.
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Date: 2005-06-10 11:45 pm (UTC)Dude, that might improve random access seek performance!
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Date: 2005-06-10 11:58 pm (UTC)They never break and they never need to be upgraded!
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Date: 2005-06-13 07:27 pm (UTC)http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/misc/orange-fire/
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Date: 2005-06-11 12:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-11 07:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-11 12:52 am (UTC)Oracle calendar is the-product-formerly-known-as Steltor CorporateTime Server. I ran it back at the doomed startup of, um, doom (http://www.messageone.com/), and it's was a pretty sweet damn package. Substantially less flaky than Exchange 5.5 or 2000. (Okay, okay... narrower than the sky... shallower than the ocean... etc. Still.)
Of course, Oracle has now had 3-4 years in which to turn the product into crap and/or actually make it more expensive than Exchange.
Still, I'd recommend keeping an open mind about it.
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Date: 2005-06-11 07:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-11 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-11 01:29 am (UTC)If they do, port 42 may be your friend.
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Date: 2005-06-11 07:39 pm (UTC)On the other hand, they're old enough now to be asking exactly why they're still running critical shit in today's lease-obsessed world.
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Date: 2005-06-12 05:24 am (UTC)Re Oracle Calendar -- IMHO it's a much better calendar than Exchange, as long as you don't buy into the bizarre thesis that using a single application for email and calendaring is inherently superior to using separate applications, regardless of the actual interface -- which, as near as I can tell, is the primary argument for Exchange/Outlook.
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Date: 2005-06-12 05:35 am (UTC)I think that i've effectively drunk the Exchange/Outlook Kool-aid because a) it works as advertised, and b) it's not my problem. The move from 5.5 (which was suckier) to 2k3 was seamless, and turning on Active Directory at that point was also a dream. It's almost enough to turn my Microsoft Hate Index down a couple of notches.
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Date: 2005-06-13 03:17 am (UTC)Can't stand Outlook myself. Something about the multicolumn interface confuses me; I could deal with two columns, but three just seems to conceal rather than reveal information, the way my mind works at least.
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Date: 2005-06-13 04:16 am (UTC)