From MohanR@STARS-SMI.com Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:33:50 -0800 From: "Mohan, Ross" Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:33:50 -0800 Subject: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Title: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service Interesting stuff. (Especially about the ruminants.)   When you say mysql does not scale, have you run into hard walls? if so, what is the data size, or is it the transaction/activity rate that tanks....i'd be interested in hearing where, if at all, you are "hitting the knee".   I'd love to get out there someday. Absolutely beautiful country.....   thanks for the snapshot! -----Original Message-----From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:wweaver@rightnow.com]Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:01 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service Well Ross, Our campus is out in the country (just about everywhere in Montana is out in the country) and we are, indeed, surrounded by docile ruminants. I'd like to say that during our off-time we go out and gaze lovingly at their udders, but there are other things we prefer to gaze at lovingly.   Of course, we have no problems doing online dairy backups around here. :>)   We use MySQL here and yes it's tunable. There's even word out on the street that soon MySQL may support the concept of a transaction. What a concept.   MySQL has its place, but it's causing us no end of pain here. It doesn't scale well enough to support what we're doing. That's why we're painfully biting the bullet and paying the big bucks for Oracle.   --Walt Weaver   Bozeman, Montana, USA     -----Original Message-----From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:MohanR@STARS-SMI.com]Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:51 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service Walt, you have just shattered my picture of you as a gentle man surrounded by docile ruminants, never uddering a discouraging word. Yes, it's amazing, the price of the software. My line to folks is: "For your money, Oracle is the best database...if it were my money, it would be almost anything but.." MySQL *is* tunable.....could be fun.... -----Original Message----- From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:wweaver@rightnow.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Oracle's Updates Subscription Service Say, is it just me or has the cost of the Updates Subscription Service gone up considerably in the past six months or so? We're currently pricing out what it'll cost us to purchase 8.1.7 Standard Edition and the numbers we're getting are a heck of a lot higher than they were in November. Has the cost of CD-ROM's gone up that much? Is the economy now in an inflationary period? Where's Allen Greenspan when you need him? Whatever happened to those hazy, golden, halcyon days when upgrades were included in product support? Sometimes, Oracle just sucks. I'm seriously considering getting on track for a MySQL certification.   :>) --Walt Weaver   Bozeman, Montana, USA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Weaver, Walt   INET: wweaver@rightnow.com Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).