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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:24 PM EDT |
| I just felt like repeating that. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: stegu on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:35 PM EDT |
Note that he said "writing APIs", not
"designing APIs". Weasel words. "Writing"
encompasses also *implementing* the API,
which is definitely hard.
The difference between designing and implementing
an API is like the difference between writing
a shopping list and actually buying the food,
cooking the meal, serving it, and doing the
dishes. The shopping list does require some
expertise and insight into cooking, but the
hard part, the part that takes most time and
that makes all the difference for the final
result, is the preparation of the food.
I'm disappointed if it turns out in the
more thorough report that Google's cross
didn't catch this and ask Ellison to be specific.
Judging from how SCO behaved in court, Google
should be wary of this kind of weasel wording
and take such statements apart.
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- He is a liar - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:43 PM EDT
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| Authored by: hAckz0r on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:40 PM EDT |
| Oracle hasn't put all that much effort into the Database performance business
lately, so all those precious man-hours MUST be going into writing a whole bunch
of Java API's. By using their DB customer satisfaction as a measure, Java should
be just about perfect when they get done with it. ---
DRM - As a
"solution", it solves the wrong problem; As a "technology" its only 'logically'
infeasible. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: kuroshima on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 05:55 PM EDT |
and I think that one of the main reasons for software project
failures is not spending enough time in the "requirements and
design phases" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 07:19 AM EDT |
It is absolutely a lie to say that writing APIs is the most difficult thing that
any software company does.
But he didn't say that. He said that it's the hardest thing *Oracle* does :-)
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