Thak you for your reply, Tony. Tony Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No. CHANGELOG CVS Dec 12th last: Right. I was not able to check out the CVS version, I got no response from the CVS server. The problem is apparently resolved now. > "[20060607.1200] jonz: removed depricated oracle driver removed > outdated oracle driver; no maintainer, lack of interest" That's too bad for us. Would there be any chance of hiring the author to maintain it again? And at approx. what cost? > FWIW with respect to high availability: > > http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/ > http://www.mysql.com/customers/ > http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/tco.html Yes. However, our tests with MySQL 4 in a multi-master cluster setup shows that it isn't very stable. Recent rumours on the web do not paint a better picture for MySQL 5 multi-master cluster. Anyone with other experience here? > I'm sure Postgres can come up with something similar, but I'm a MySQL > person. Then it seems the viable alternative will be PostgreSQL with Slony and Pgpool. But then we have to set up and test it. That costs many man hours. I believe it would be more economic for us to use our Oracle RAC since we already have it set up and we do not pay extra for more machines ("site license"). How many and what kind of machines do you predict it will take to adequately run DSPAM for 40k users? 4 Postfix/DSPAM/ClamAV and 2-3 DB backends? > ... but some don't care for open source software ... This is not the case here, in fact I prefer it. We sys admins at the university aren't always involved when someone buys fancy software. -- Regards, Lars Tobias Børsting
