Re: People looking for win32 downloads

[Fredrick Bartlett]

How long does it take to download and install Oracle?

Ed Barlow wrote:

> Im a 13 year SQL veteran - ive worked extensively with oracle and sybase
> for most every major wall street firm - and it took a full day to find,
> download,
> and install the windows version of mysql.  Neither what needs to be
> downloaded
> nor the license nor the instructions are easy to find and use.
>
> The downloads page at mysql.com needs some work.
>
> This should have been a 10 minute task.
>
> Ed
>
> "Jonah H. Harris" wrote:
> >
> > This is just my analysis and opinion.
> >
> > If people can't find the download, do they really have any business being DB
> > administrators...  If they have no idea how to click
> >
> > Downloads->MySQL 3.23 -- BETA->Standard binary (tarball)
> > distributions:Windows 95/NT (Intel)
> >
> > How will they know how to setup a DB, use a DB, or what a DB is for.  You
> > have to learn to use webpages before you can code interfaces to databases
> > via the web (as I have lately seen messages about).  It's too bad that this
> > has turned from a MySQL help list to a HTML/ASP/PHP help list.  You can't
> > play a game without learning the rules... neither can you install/setup a
> > database (worth a damn) if you don't know the conditions surrounding it.
> >
> > Either have a separate board for Newbies trying to make Win95/98 into
> > IIS/ASP/DB servers, or redefine the nature of this list.
> >
> > It just irritates me, as a developer, to see people waste other developers
> > time with simple... easy to answer questions.  For heaven's sake (oh no, I
> > might get another 10 emails of the stupid "Christian TV Loss" crap) people,
> > use your brains and find things out for yourself instead of just asking.  If
> > you learn it for yourself it sticks with you better and you can apply it.
> >
> > Jonah H. Harris, MCSE/MCSD
> > CEO/President
> > NightStar Corporation
> >
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