I'm not a Windows hater, but one of my long standing gripes about Windows is that it just seems to have terrible multitasking compared to OSX.
I'm sure there are reasons but it just seems utterly symbolic of Microsoft that they never managed to get Windows to multitask in a rock solid, smooth and reliable way like OSX.
Search should be a first class feature of a database not an addon. Every.Single. Time. I have ever needed to "just add on search" it has resulted in deep pain.
Nothing you say will convince me that it's just a super easy dance in the daisies to "just do X" or "just do Y" and suddenly its database search heaven.
Database application architects need to wise up that the world revolves around search - built in, not add on.
If free text search is such a hard problem then you'd think that would be even more reason to start with solving that toughest of all problems. If it's a really hard problem then it will be even harder to retrofit later into some system that is already architected and built.
A light spanking for the architect. No search would have been a thorough spanking.
It's a strange thing, but almost all new database technologies seem to leave search as an afterthought for some later day instead of starting on day one with the assumption that "it's all about search".
A database system that doesn't support rich search capabilities is restricted to very limited types of applications.
Often search is left unimplemented for years, or perhaps never implemented.
I'm not a Windows hater, but one of my long standing gripes about Windows is that it just seems to have terrible multitasking compared to OSX.
I'm sure there are reasons but it just seems utterly symbolic of Microsoft that they never managed to get Windows to multitask in a rock solid, smooth and reliable way like OSX.