Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Joshua Chamas wrote:
> > BTW, I have also evaled Sybase, Informix, DB2, SQLServer 6.5,
> > Solid, and found Oracle to be the best of all those, but if
> > you don't need transactions, go with MySQL...
>
> Do you mind sharing with me (if not the list) why Sybase lost out to Oracle?
>
Not going to let me get away with that eh? ...
At the time, it was likely that DBD::Sybase didn't support
bind parameters, or something stupid like that, maybe lack of
support for multiple $sth ... this eval was about 1+1/2 year
ago now, so quite dated. It may have been that their licensing
was worse too, having me pony up $3000+ up front for a web app,
instead of $1200 for Oracle ? I was able to make a successful
argument with Oracle that I could monitor "concurrent users"
and should have per user pricing for starters (read $Application
+ $Session in Apache::ASP)
Its all a big blur. ;)
I think it was Informix & DB2 database quirks that turned me
off, I vaguely recall DB2's precise time() data type being
too precise and taking up too much storage. SQLServer 6.5 was
just weak and locked up way too fast, which supposedly is
different with 7.0
-- Joshua
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