I've been impressed with pgsql but i dunno a damn thing abt oracle. On 5/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > MySQL or PostgreSQL would be the better choice although there are many > free dbms available. Firstly, we have to analyze their data whether > they can be migrated to the open source database system or not. > There's no doubt that most of the things can be done using MySQL or > PostgreSQL but features which Oracle supports might not be supported > by other free dbms. But MySQL is getting bigger and robust day by day > and may support most of the Oracle features. > > Let's have a look at this URL first : > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems > > Dibyendra > > On May 19, 9:17 am, "Prasanna Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > We all know that often governments are the biggest consumers esp in > > softwares. As we all know from the recent posts here that HLCIT also > wants > > to go OpenSource with it's database. Now we need to leverage this for > FOSS > > community. We all know oracle is popular but we also know that Open > Source > > has caught up. The thing that they want is support. If we can get the > HLCIT > > converted to Open Source, we can show how much taxpayer's money is being > > wasted(?) because unless people really need/use a feature, they > shouldn't be > > paying for it. Let's do a research essentially... (ok cut to the chase) > > because there's more money with government works for Foss Nepal and > getting > > a system of that scale to work on Open Source software will mean that it > can > > be a great achievement for FOSS community towards making us more > enterprise > > friendly in due time and especially when the bigger names (IBM?) come to > > Nepal. > > > > The thing is, let's focus on people who really want to go open source > get > > the maximum benefit out of it. Let's do some research into it... let's > find > > out for sure the weaknesses and strengths of Open Source solutions, what > we > > can get from the enterprise versions and how it can be worked on... It > > surely sounds daunting... but foss nepal will get lost in the sea of > bidders > > (from Oracle Pros, ol' enemy Microsoft and others) unless there's money > in > > it. We have worked on databases time and again... it's time to get > things > > that you all have reviewed and perhaps review yourself so that we really > can > > have a vision in long run in this sector as well... > > > > I'll be posting some of the interesting things ... err... as some people > > call... spammin? here and I believe u guys can do it as well so that we > can > > really show what can be done... > > > > Let's stop using Bulldozers(oracle) for making sandcastles..... > > > > >
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