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By John Taschek  |  Posted 2001-01-01 Email Print this article Print
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Oracle has figured out what the IT industry loves and hates in the computer industry.

Oracle has figured out what the IT industry loves and hates in the computer industry. It hates debugging desktop operating systems and not having the right data at the right time. It loves some semblance of control and quick answers.

IFS is the companys answer to everything wrong with desktop computing. Having a database manage free-floating files is a great idea, but not one thats easily executed.

Oracles CEO, Larry Ellison, says hes committed to standards, and the companys record proves it. But Oracle can be slow adopting them, which Ellison blames on political shenanigans within the standards committees.

But thats no excuse for Oracle not totally adopting the LDAP directory standard that has been publicly available for years. IFS needs this standard to be an effective platform.

Its clear that IFS is brilliant and it could solve a lot of problems and save corporations a lot of money. But it has to work with everything else. Technology adoption is not based on the brilliance of an idea; its based on the capability of integration. Oracles got great ideas. Now it needs to figure out how they all work together.

 
 
 
 
As the director of eWEEK Labs, John manages a staff that tests and analyzes a wide range of corporate technology products. He has been instrumental in expanding eWEEK Labs' analyses into actual user environments, and has continually engineered the Labs for accurate portrayal of true enterprise infrastructures. John also writes eWEEK's 'Wide Angle' column, which challenges readers interested in enterprise products and strategies to reconsider old assumptions and think about existing IT problems in new ways. Prior to his tenure at eWEEK, which started in 1994, Taschek headed up the performance testing lab at PC/Computing magazine (now called Smart Business). Taschek got his start in IT in Washington D.C., holding various technical positions at the National Alliance of Business and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. There, he and his colleagues assisted the government office with integrating the Windows desktop operating system with HUD's legacy mainframe and mid-range servers.
 
 
 
 
 
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