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Oracle & the D/B that wasn't

My salute to Oracle is the middle finger flip off.

I had the misfortune to be obliged to use the worst, least stable, most authoritarian, user antagonistic system ever -- Oracle's $50,000,000 digital boat anchor, custom kluged for Danka Copiers, St Petersburg FL & Toronto

Naturally the Oracle propeller heads immediatly decided to use Excel os a Data base for this project

These GenX geneii decided to force Danka sales reps -- sales isn't really work, is it? to become data entry clerks, accounting drudges and all around flunkies, wrestling with 22 loosely connected, grossly unstable, Excel spreadsheets, with diabolical code memorization requirements, special for each Data entry filed.

Oracle MBAs and similar drones probably got a dandy, make believe ROI with all the Danka clerical workers they offed. The hapless sales reps usually had to spend 1-3 hours on every order entry, maintenance input, tied to sales commission calculation, and costing - including how amny copies per month, they prepared. If they entered unacceptable data the system generally crashed, and they could start over.

Oh yes, Oracle's masterpiece could not produce a sales invoice -- only a lease application, so customers with a solid cash flow who did not lease, had to have a dummy sales invoice fudged.

If a client at let's say, the needs analysis stage, said 'let's go ahead and buy the copier' The rep had to go back to his office and face Oracle

Danka Canada was bought out with its own debt by Pitney Bowes, who regretted it; and Danka H. O. collapsed of its losses and debt the next year.

Oracle raves on.

Posted by: rfid@...   Posted on: 10/14/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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