On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:10, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > <snip> > > > IMO mysql is a great database to learn the basics on, and to use for your > > own purposes, but postgresql will scale far better, and keep you going > > until you're making enough money to be able to afford to upgrade to > > Oracle! > > eeek! > Did you say *up* grade? > > For all but the most huge of applications there would be very little > advantage to using that > great big hairy huge ginormous gargantuan humungous...thing. > > :-/ > > (back on topic) > they run Oracle Financials at work and they are seriously considering a > cluster of cheapish (approx $15k) pizza box servers running Redhat > instead of an approx $140k Sun Box. > > This gives you an idea of the scale that Oracle is at home with. > > And incidentally there are many who say that Oracle Financials is still > overpowered for our little University. > > > Regards, > Zane
BTW, you might like looking at Ingres Release 3, the one CA released under its own Open Source license. It's available as source or as rpms, many little mangy rpms that clutter up a hard drive! ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
