Price. MySQL == Free Oracle == $$$$$$$$ On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 20:25, Elizabeth Bogner wrote: > > 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 > >
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