A few things I can say from experience, Oracle support is quite expensive as is their software and it is as much bloatware at M$ if not more.
Art -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Bogner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed) A company I work with is in the process of upgrading its databases from some motheaten system to something current. My impression is that they want to go with Oracle, and I'm not sure if this is based on anything other than being impressed with the size and presumed quality support of Oracle. I'd like to encourage them to at least seriously consider using MySQL instead. I don't think that speed is a huge factor here; we do a lot of XML publishing and content management, but at most we'd have several gigabytes of data and several dozen simultaneous users, so well within the capabilities of MySQL. I've looked at various things I could find, like the benchmarks pages (probably not relevant) and the MySQL myths page, which was somewhat helpful, but I couldn't find anything more along the lines of "How to Convince my Management to go with MySQL." I don't even know what to expect from them, but I'm imagining they'll say, "But MySQL doesn't support sub-selects," to which I can reply, "But you can write most of those as joins anyway, so it won't matter because the software will all be written from scratch." Etc. Are there pointers anyone can give me? E. Bognewitz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
