Assuming that you are not just a bad troll looking to feel important . . ..

Why do Oracle and SyBase engines use indexes?

Because indexes provide a traversable tree structure that "terminate" with direct access addresses for the individual records within the system.

Maybe you are unaware that the existence of indexes is not part of the RDBMS definition?

Why does the primary index definition and implementation affect the performance of an Oracle or SyBase instance? Because the records are physically sorted into the order of the primary index in order to make traversing the contents of the database in that order a trivial issue.

Maybe you are unaware that RDBMS theory mandates that it is impossible to predict the order of data within a query response unless the query mandates an order?

Why is so much of the overhead associated with running both Oracle and SyBase dedicated to maintaining indexes? Because neither system has the ability to provide a reasonable query return time when you ask for a response set in a non-indexed order.

Maybe you are unaware that RDBMS theory mandates that the delay in a query response should relate to the complexities of the joins used in the query, not the requested order of data?

Or were you looking for something more?

Teradata, for one. Yes, it is primarily a hardware solution instead of a software one, but it is scalable, reconfigurable, and actually an RDBMS instead of an ISAM depending on computer speed/power to overcome the limits of the interpretation code required to pretend to be an RDBMS. The power, speed, and capability these machines are capable of is simply amazing. SyBase, the company which has been losing market share to the Oracle marketing department for well over a decade, but whose ISAM implementation with an RDBMS interface is cleaner and not as hardware intensive as Oracle's. These are other, BETTER options than Oracle that I've had the fortune to work with during my career. I know there are more options out there.

They don't.

For the same reason fully trained fighter pilots are required to fly USAF UAVs: Because they are the people running things, so they don't trust people with different backgrounds and skill sets to handle things they way they want them handled. This is very basic, normal human behavior. All the posturing and attempts to justify the behavior as right or wrong appear to have ignored the reality that this is simply normal human behavior. The only thing of note here is the level of reaction to behavior displayed every moment of every day in every bit of the industry still in America.

Seriously? Don't thieves try to pass the stolen items off for cash FAR MORE than they keep them? Now, it is QUITE possible that the guy with possession of the laptop is complicit in that he knows he has stolen property, but assuming that he's the thief seems WAY overboard.

I can't speak to the "majority of users", but there are 5 XP boxes (all legal) I control that will never have SP3 put on them because MS has no business gathering the information about my family and our computing practices that SP3 institutes. While you can argue his choice of words, the point is accurate. There are people like me refusing to perform this upgrade because OS-based spyware is still spyware.

Uhhh . . .. If you are planning on going to Gen Con and pitching an idea cold, you're setting yourself up for failure. The major corporate employees that are on site are heavily booked, and heavily assaulted by people with the same "great idea" on how to get their game mass produced/published in the marketplace. If you want to "play this game", use Gen Con (the player focused event) as a chance to make and create contacts, not a sales opportunity. Origins is the company focused event, in theory, but it doesn't honestly run much differently than Gen Con does. Now, if you have previously made the contacts, then you can progress into asking them if they are willing to hear your pitch. If you have to force your pitch on them, you won't sell your game. I've been a booth monkey at both conventions for several years. Trust me, assaulting people with your "big idea" IS assaulting them. You are handled the same as any other rabid fan.

Not even my own story. Several years ago, my father was working for Perot Enterprises (that didn't last long), and one of his jobs was to "do whatever was necessary" to get the local office software licenses legal, without impacting their ability to do the work. He ended up spending tens of thousands of dollars purchasing licenses for the software that everybody depended on, AFTER getting them to identify the stuff they didn't really use and removing it from the machines. But, that's the rub. You can either do it cheap, and change how the business actually works, generating animosity about your evil practices, or you can do it expensive. Ask the boss. He needs to decides which expense he would rather pay. And the risk of getting caught is a viable option for him to choose . . .. You might not want to hang around if he picks that one, but it is an option from his seat.

Other articles I have seen on this topic have stated that instead of the USAF having a Cyber Command, that we will get a Numbered Air Force belonging to Space Command which will handle the USAF's share of these duties.