I thought that the practice of forcing useless software onto users as part of an installation had died out but apparently not by the looks of this Java installer.
That this is being foisted upon us by Oracle, who clearly don’t need the little money they must be making from this, is a surprised as I thought this practice was restricted to smaller outfits but clearly not.
If you want to help stop this practice you can sign a petition at change.org here. … Read the rest
One of the beauties of a long career is that you get to see how things in your sector evolve over time. Being in IT is no different other than the phenomenal rate of change.
Nowhere is this more evident than in databases. When I started out in the late eighties I was a COBOL programmer working on hierarchical databases and specifically IDMSX on ICL’s VME platform. These databases worked on the basis of linked lists and you had to “walk” through a whole chain in order to get to the record you wanted.
Hierarchical databases were straightforward to learn … Read the rest