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

[Andrew Perrin]

Not sure why you'd bother with MySQL - PostgreSQL has more features for
the same price.  Just my 2c.

ap

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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Roy Vestal wrote:

> Here's a question: to learn the basics of db admin, should I use MySQL, or
> Posgres?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Turnpike Man" <turnpike420 at yahoo.com>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe
> Microsoft out of the data center
>
>
> > 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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