> 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).
So what's wrong with Postgres ??
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