Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

Paul wrote:
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> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:

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>>Microsoft is trying to patent FAT: Nothing suprises me anymore.
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> They invented it, so why can't they patent it? Not, of course, that
> many people would pay to use it, but they might have to to access a
> FAT32 drive using, for example, Linux.
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> What about NTFS? I know that Linux -> NTFS is read only.
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That is mainly because *any* software, ported from Linux/GNu domains to Microsoft, have some remark like "due to the instability of the OS you want to run this software on, we cannot guarantee the normal levels of operation and performance"

You can have NTFS read/write from Linux (Knoppix will do that out of the box), but no warranties...
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>>>Or that Interbase/Firebird does on vastly less amounts of CPU than
>>>Oracle does?
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>>Measured how? I've never seen any published metrics and as far as I know
>>Interbase/Firebird has negligible internal instrumentation.
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> There are systems out there with 32 MB of RAM on the first Pentium
> processors which are working systems. I doubt if one could do anything
> with a current version of Oracle with such a machine.
>

Right... let's see how version 10 of Interbase/Firebird behaves, then, OK? And please, do install all options Oracle has standard.

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Frank van Bortel

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