Message
Most
people only use a fraction of Oracle's features and some are deceived
by the Oracle Marketeers who tell them that they NEED them
all. Maybe the 80/20 rule also applies to technology purchases... Especially
when the cost differential is huge.
My 4X4
pickup works just fine and I don't need a Hummer or Land
Rover.
Offroad in Montana,
Steve
If MySQL
comes to have the same capabilities that many people expect
from Oracle, marketing will have no effect. The
huge differential in price
point will
be all that matters.
Jared
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| DENNIS WILLIAMS
<DWILLIAMS@LIFETOUCH.COM>
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Sounds like the old Oracle vs. Ingress battles. Oracle won because it
was
better at marketing. All detailed in the book "The Difference Between
God
and Larry Ellison". I can see it now -- MySQL, the Oracle of the
free
databases.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch,
Inc.
dwilliams@lifetouch.com
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Ryan,
It's postgres.org. I'm not sure how they generate the
operating
revenue they need, but that's why they are not advertising like
MySql AB is.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i
DBA
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5:05 PM
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i thought
postgre was a for profit company? how do they generate revenues?
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> 1) DBI is a perl module to handle the communication with
various
databases.
> 2) Postgres is free. I believe that you can buy
commercial support, but I
don't know
> where. May be
Rich can jump in with that.
> 3) DBI is free and so is perl. I'm cheap
& easy, but not free.
>
>
> On 01/14/2004 02:34:52 PM,
Ryan wrote:
> > what is DBI?
> >
> > is postgre
free? Is it like linux where you pay for support? I cant find
any
>
> licensing info on the website. Most shops dont need oracle, sql
server,
> > sybase, or DB2.
> >
> > Most
applications are small. I was on a project where the government
had
an
> > Oracle EE license on windows. They didnt even use
foreign key
constraints.
> > Had a whopping 13 tables, 20 MB of
data, and 10-15 users. Any free
database
> > could have handled
that.
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> >
> >
> >
>
> > > On 01/14/2004 12:44:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
>
> > > If you have the choice, look at PostgreSQL in addition to
MySQL.
From
> > what
> > > > I've seen, it's more
mature than MySQL.
> > >
> > > I second that.
PostgresSQL supports transactions and uses perl as its
> > >
scripting language. From what little I read and saw (just a
little
pilot
> > > project with the goal to see "what the heck
is Postgres"), it's a very
> > > decent database, with a decent
performance and capabilities sufficient
> > > for a small,
departmental database server. I know nothing of
clustering,
> >
> distributed database, database links, replication and alike. In
other
> > words,
> > > I wouldn't use it for an
enterprise-wide server for GE or Wall-Mart,
but
> > > it can be
quite a convenient storage space for a small corner shop or
a
> >
> small department. Because of perl and DBI, exchanging data with
other
> > > servers like oracle or UDB (DB2) is easy.
> >
>
> > > --
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