[TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of the data center

[Turnpike Man]

I agree... MySQL is great for home grown apps like on personal websites... even
small apps in business... threat to Oracle? nah...

David M.

--- Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Our guys have collectively turned their noses up at MySQL after trying 
> it on one production application.  Some of the standard features they 
> expected from an RDBMS were not there, and they had to do messy SQL to 
> get around it.  Don't shoot the messenger.  I don't think MySQL is a 
> serious threat to Oracle, or at least it won't be in the next 5 years.  
> PostgreSQL isn't as fast for us as Oracle on the same hardware, but the 
> money saved can justify faster hardware (and a lot of change left 
> over).  The feature set is there, the scalability is there.
> 


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