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

[Roy Vestal]

I'm asking for a beginners aspect of learning the basics.
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From: "Andrew Perrin" <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe
Microsoft out of the data center


> Not sure why you'd bother with MySQL - PostgreSQL has more features for
> the same price.  Just my 2c.
>
> ap
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> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Roy Vestal wrote:
>
> > Here's a question: to learn the basics of db admin, should I use MySQL,
or
> > Posgres?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Turnpike Man" <turnpike420 at yahoo.com>
> > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > 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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