Matt Sergeant writes:
> 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.
>
> support. Of course you pay for it. A single web Oracle licence is going to
> set you back around $25,000 (as will most commercial databases). If cost is
> an issue check out Sybase ASE 11.3 which is free for even commercial use
> (no support though) and has been solid for me for nearly a year now.
You can also use the supported Sybase ASE 11.9.2, which I *believe*
will cost around $20k for a linux/web licence.
Michael
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