Re: Free ware databases: which are worth the money?

Mark,

My recommendation is Interbase, very good DB.

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> Hi,
> we are investigating some freeware databases for deployment on systems
that
> dont justify the cost of an oracle license, on linux. What databases out
> these can cope with a OLTP load, all transaction based, with some
> reporting? Uncomplicated databases, with mid size volumes of transactions
> (say low millions) and some reporting queries? I guess reliability is the
> primary concern, if something can be built as solidly as an oracle
> instance, with whatever OS protection this would need, then its a starting
> point for making a non oracle freeware enterprise database.
> Anyone have any suggestions on what I should download first?
>
> Thanks!
> Mark Teehan
> Singapore
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