If MySQL comes to have the same capabilities that many people expect
from Oracle, marketing will have no effect. The huge differential in price
point will be all that matters.
Jared
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Sounds like the old Oracle vs. Ingress battles. Oracle won because it was
better at marketing. All detailed in the book "The Difference Between God
and Larry Ellison". I can see it now -- MySQL, the Oracle of the free
databases.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Ryan,
It's postgres.org. I'm not sure how they generate the operating
revenue they need, but that's why they are not advertising like MySql AB is.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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i thought postgre was a for profit company? how do they generate revenues?
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> 1) DBI is a perl module to handle the communication with various
databases.
> 2) Postgres is free. I believe that you can buy commercial support, but I
don't know
> where. May be Rich can jump in with that.
> 3) DBI is free and so is perl. I'm cheap & easy, but not free.
>
>
> On 01/14/2004 02:34:52 PM, Ryan wrote:
> > what is DBI?
> >
> > is postgre free? Is it like linux where you pay for support? I cant find
any
> > licensing info on the website. Most shops dont need oracle, sql server,
> > sybase, or DB2.
> >
> > Most applications are small. I was on a project where the government had
an
> > Oracle EE license on windows. They didnt even use foreign key
constraints.
> > Had a whopping 13 tables, 20 MB of data, and 10-15 users. Any free
database
> > could have handled that.
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> >
> >
> > >
> > > On 01/14/2004 12:44:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > > > If you have the choice, look at PostgreSQL in addition to MySQL.
From
> > what
> > > > I've seen, it's more mature than MySQL.
> > >
> > > I second that. PostgresSQL supports transactions and uses perl as its
> > > scripting language. From what little I read and saw (just a little
pilot
> > > project with the goal to see "what the heck is Postgres"), it's a very
> > > decent database, with a decent performance and capabilities sufficient
> > > for a small, departmental database server. I know nothing of
clustering,
> > > distributed database, database links, replication and alike. In other
> > words,
> > > I wouldn't use it for an enterprise-wide server for GE or Wall-Mart,
but
> > > it can be quite a convenient storage space for a small corner shop or
a
> > > small department. Because of perl and DBI, exchanging data with other
> > > servers like oracle or UDB (DB2) is easy.
> > >
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