Take a look at Frontbase www.frontbase.com From what I can see, it does
everything that Oracle or Sybase can do and is much more reasonable in
price. They're a small company and the support has been excellent.
We've outgrown MySQL and are planning to use Frontbase to replace it.
At 01:08 PM 1/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, John Armstrong wrote:
> > > Hello all-
> > > I just got the word from down high that VC's will freak out
> > > if they see we are using mysql and now we are looking at an Oracle
> > > solution.
> > >
> > > The product is a mid level mod perl application that will
> > > receive ~500,000 hits a day. I want to engineer it to withstand up to
> > > 2 million hits per day ( not unique users ). Does anyone have good
> > > or bad stories about using Oracle with mod_perl/DBI/Apache::DBI? I
> > > would love to hear both sides of the coin. I personally think Oracle
> > > is overkill but I don't have any major issues with it.
> >
> > Depends what the business is. If it is a serious business looking
> > for VC I would actually suspect the inverse is true: MySQL is
> > underkill (I think I just made that word up) due to its lack of
> > transactions and other advanced features (yes, these things do mean
> > something in the real world).
