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

[Jason Tower]

the best answer might be "c" - none of the above.  if you *really* want 
to learn DB stuff you can use oracle.  my understanding is that it 
doesn't cost anything unless you license it to use in production, for 
development/training it's free (as in beer, of course).

jason

On Thursday 03 April 2003 11:06, Roy Vestal wrote:
> Here's a question: to learn the basics of db admin, should I use
> MySQL, or Posgres?
>
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> 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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