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

[Roy Vestal]

Here's a question: to learn the basics of db admin, should I use MySQL, or
Posgres?

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From: "Turnpike Man" <turnpike420 at yahoo.com>
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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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